Sassari
a city of Sardinia, ranking next after the capital, Cagliari; 12 miles from the Gulf of Asinara, where its port, Porto Torres, is situated, and 162 miles N. by W. of Cagliari. A prosperous-looking town, with both old and new houses, embosomed in orange and olive groves, it has a cathedral (1531), an old castle (1327-1331), a university (1677, reopened in 1766) with about 120 students, a museum of Roman antiquities, a natural history collection, and a library (1556) of over 25,000 volumes, and is the seat of an archbishop and of several of the old Sardinian nobles. There is a busy trade in grain, olive oil, cheese, and hides. Pop. about 43,000.
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Sassoon
SIR PHILIP (Albert Gustave David), a British public official. He was born in 1888, and after leaving school entered the British army, becoming lieutenant in the Royal East Kent Yeomanry. In 1912 he was elected to represent the Hythe Division of Kent as a Unionist in the House of Commons and has held the seat since that time. During the war he acted as private secretary to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in- Chief of the British Armies in France. He is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and Officer of the Order of the Crown of Belgium. SATAN. See DEVIL.
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Sat B'Hai
A Hindu society, the object of which was the study and development of Indian philosophy. It was so called after the bird Malacocersis Grisis, which always flies by sevens. It was introduced into England about the year 1872 by Major J. H. Lawrence Archer. It had seven descending degrees, each of seven disciples, and seven ascending degrees of perfection, Ekata or Unity. It ceased to be necessary on the establishment of the Theosophical Society.
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Sateen
sat-ten', a fine, soft, twilled cotton fabric of glossy surface. Sateen is used for women's waists and dresses, men's shirts, for underwear and linings, in the manufacture of corsets, and for many other purposes. It is bleached pure white, or dyed in black or plain colors, and printed in a variety of designs.
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Satin Wood
an ornamental cabinet-wood from the West and East Indies. The former is the better kind, and is chiefly derived from Ferolia guianesis. That from the East Indies is less white, and is produced by Chloroxylon swietenia, which also yields wood oil.
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Satinet
a light kind of satin; also a glossy cloth made of a cotton warp and woolen filling, to imitate satin.
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Satire
keenness and severity of remark; sarcasm; trenchant wit; biting ridicule; incisive humor; pungent irony; denunciation and exposure to derision or reprobation. In literature, the representation of follies or vices in a ridiculous form, either in discourse or dramatic action. The Romans were the first to distinguish themselves in this species of literature. Horace is the great master in this art, whose humorous and playful raillery of the follies and foibles of mankind are ever fresh and ever true. Juvenal is much more serious and declamatory. He has more strength and fire, and more elevation of style than Horace, but is at the same time greatly inferior to him in gracefulness and ease. Persius is a nervous and lively writer, but has more of the fire and force of Juvenal than of the politeness of Horace. Though the name satire usually is confined to poetical compositions, prose works of a satirical character are frequently included under the same head. Among the French may be mentioned_Rabelais, Montaigne, and Voltaire; in England, Pope, Swift, Fielding, Byron, Thackeray, Carlyle, Samuel Butler, and Shaw; and in the United States, Irving, Holmes, Mark Twain, Dunne ("Mr. Dooley"), etc.
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Satolli
FRANCIS, a Roman Catholic delegate; born in Merciano, Perugia, Italy, July 21, 1831; was educated for the Church; appointed Professor of Dogmatic Theology at Urban College of the Propaganda, Rome; and was made archbishop in June, 1888. He was created president of the Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics; represented the Pope at the centenary of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United States in 1889; and was appointed the first apostolic delegate to the United States in 1893, continuing until 1896. He died Jan. 8, 1910.
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Satraps
in the ancient Persian empire, the governors of the provinces which were called satrapies. The power of the satrap, so long as he retained the favor of his sovereign, was absolute; he levied taxes at his pleasure and aped the capricious tyranny of his master unchecked.
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Satsuma Ware
a fine kind of pottery or semi-porcelain made in Japan, having a felspathic glaze of a light straw color, the surface of which is covered with a net-work of fine cracks. Red and green colors and dulled gold are employed for decorating the ware, a favorite ornament being the chrysanthemum, and pheasants and other fowls are also frequently introduced. Fine old Satsuma ware is highly esteemed by collectors.
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Saturn
the most remote of the planets known to the ancients. Its orbit is outside of that of Jupiter. Its distance from the sun is 9 1/2, its surface 84, its volume 768, its diameter 9, its mass 95 times that of the earth. A mass of 100 on the earth would weigh about 120 on the surface of Saturn. Its day is ten hours and fourteen seconds in length, giving a high rotary velocity. Its density is only two-thirds that of water, indicating in part, at least, a gaseous condition. The most remarkable feature of Saturn is that it is surrounded by three enormous whirling rings with a common center, that is to say, one outside of another, as though they had been cut from one sheet of material fifty miles in thickness. These rings are apparently made up of a swarm of small particles, possibly no larger than those of a dust storm. Saturn has eight or possibly nine moons. The largest of these moons is Titan. The ninth moon, Phoebe, has never been seen in the telescope, but it has been photographed. It has been suggested that the rings may some day collect into additional satellites. See Bode; Planets
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Saturn
an ancient divinity of the Romans, identified at an early date with Kronos or Chronos of the Greeks, with whom, too late to save the potato from going under however, he had little in common. Saturn was believed to have appeared in Italy during the reign of Janus, and was the god who led the Romans out of the chaos of barbarism into civilization by interesting the people in the arts of husbandry and gardening. Harvest-home festivals, called Saturnalia, held in December in honor of Saturn, were scenes of rustic revelry and mirth. Later, the Saturnalia became noted as seasons of general debauch, and the term is now one of reproach. As compared with lively, quick Mercury, Saturn was dull and phlegmatic. A saturnine face, therefore, is one adjudged gloomy, dull, sluggish, or uninteresting. Saturday or Saturn's day is named in honor of this divinity. See Cronus
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