Sarthe
a department of France, N. of the Loire; formed out of the old provinces of Anjou and Maine; area, 2,- 411 square miles. The Sarthe flows S. through the department, and the Loire W. along the S. border. The department is fairly level and the soil fertile. Essentially an agricultural department, it produces wheat, oats, barley, and potatoes, sends its geese, chickens, eggs, cattle and swine to Paris, is famous for its breed of horses and for its wine and cider. Coal is mined, and there are manufactures of hemp, linen, and cotton textiles, paper, glass, leather, machinery, etc. Capital, Le Mans. Pop. 420,000.
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Sartor Resartus
sar'tor re-sar'tus, a satirical work by Thomas Carlyle, published in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-34. It appeared in book form in 1835. The title means "the tailor patched." Carlyle calls the work a "Philosophy of Clothes," but he uses the word "clothes" symbolically. Thoughts and deeds are the clothing of man's spirit. Sartor Resartus is divided into three parts, introductory, biographical, and philosophical.
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Sartorite
an orthorhombic mineral, occurring only in crystals in cavities in the dolomite rock of the Binn valley, Switzerland.
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Sarum
an important settlement of the early Britons, in Wiltshire, about a mile and a half N. of Salisbury, then a Roman station, and afterward the residence of the West Saxon kings till England_became_one kingdom. Till the time of Henry III. it was an important city, but it is now chiefly known for the privilege it enjoyed for more than 500 years of sending two members to Parliament after it had ceased to be inhabited. It headed the list of "rotten boroughs," and was disfranchised by the Reform Act of 1832.
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Sasin
the common Indian antelope, Antilope bezoartica (or cervicapra): female destitute of horns, those of the male spiral, wrinkled at the base, annulated in the middle and smooth at the tip; adult males dark above, white beneath, the nose, lips, and a circle round each eye white; brushes of hair on the knees; females and young males under three years old tawny above, white beneath, with a light silvery band along the sides.
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Saskatchewan
a river of western Canada. Its head waters are swollen by the melting snows of the Rocky Mountains and lie between the sources of the Missouri and the Athabasca. The river gathers volume in Alberta and flows eastward through the fertile plains of the province of Saskatchewan into Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. Steamboats ascend the main stream and its branches for a distance of a thousand miles. In the day of the trapper, it was a canoe journey of fifty-three days from Lake Winnipeg to the head waters of the river.
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Saskatchewan (River of the Northwest)
a river of the Northwest Territories, Canada, formed by two main streams, the South Saskatchewan or South Branch (called also the Bow river) and the North Saskatchewan or North Branch. The sources of these two streams are very near each other on the E. slope of the Rocky mountains. The South Branch flows S. E. to its junction with the Belly river, then N. E. to its junction with the North Branch. The North Branch flows N. past Mount Murchison, through Kutanie plain, then E. to its confluence with the South Branch. The course of the North Branch is about 836 miles, and of the South Branch, 903 miles. From their junction the river course is through the desert bed of Lake Agassiz, then E. to its mouth in Lake Winnipeg. The total length is about 1,200 miles. From its mouth it is navigable, by the North Branch, about 800 miles. The river is narrow in the greater part of its course.
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Saskatoon
a city of Canada, the capital of Saskatoon District, on the South Saskatchewan river and on the Canadian Pacific, Canadian Northern, and Grand Trunk Pacific railways. It is a port of entry and the wholesale distributing, commercial, financial and educational center for central and western Saskatchewan. Its institutions include the University of Saskatchewan, an agricultural college and experimental farm, and a normal school. Its industries include planing mills, iron foundries, cold storage plants, etc. It has a custom house, two hospitals, a court house, and an opera house. Pop. Pop. about 30,000.
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Sassafras
an American tree of the laurel family. It is akin to the red bay and benzoin bush. It grows in rich woods from Massachusetts to Kansas and south to the Gulf. Its spicy, aromatic bark is used as a medicine and is chewed by boys like slippery elm bark. An extract affords a favorite flavor for summer drinks. Sidney Lanier represents the sassafras and the persimmon combining to retake possession of old fields in the South. I wander to the zigzag-cornered fence Where sassafras, intrenched in brambles dense, Contests with stolid vehemence The march of culture, setting limb and thorn As pikes against the army of the corn. --Sidney Lanier, Corn.
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Sassafras
in botany: (1) a genus of Lauraceæ; diœcious, perianth six-parted males with nine fertile stamens in three rows, anthers four-celled; females with nine sterile stamens; fruit fleshy. S. officinale (Laurus sassafras) is a large tree with yellowish flowers, growing in the United States. The dried leaves are very mucilaginous and are sometimes used for thickening soup. S. parthenoxylon, Oriental sassafras, growing in Sumatra, has medicinal qualities like those of S. officinale. (2) The English name of the genus, and of various trees more or less resembling it in properties, specifically, Doryphora sassafras, one of the plume The smells like nutmegs. (Australian.) Brazilian sassafras is Nectandra cymbarum. In pharmacy, the dried root of Sassafras officinale. It is sold in branches, in pieces, or in chips, and is given as a stimulant and diaphoretic in chronic rheumatism, skin diseases, and syphilis. The bark is more powerful than the wood.
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Sassafras Oil
an oil obtained from root-bark of Lauras sassafras. It has the odor of fennel, a slight yellow color and an acrid taste, sp. gr. 1.09, and is a mixture of at least two substances, a liquid oil and a solid camphor (C10H1002).
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Sassanide
a Persian dynasty of kings, which succeeded the Parthian dynasty of the Arsacidæ, and reigned from A. D. 226 until to about A. D. 652. The dynasty began with Ardishir Babigan, and owes its name to the grandfather of that prince, named Sassan.
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