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 SATYRS SAUMUR earthenware figures given to children as pres- ents. During the Saturnalia no business of any kind was transacted, the distinctions of rank were forgotten, the utmost freedom of speech was permitted, and crowds perambu- .lated the streets, wearing the pileut, the em- blem of liberty, and shouting lo Saturnalia, much in the same spirit as in the modern car- nival time; while within doors feasting and revelry were indulged to an inordinate degree. SATYRS, in Greek mythology, a class of rus- tic divinities under the government of Bacchus, and forming part of his retinue. They are represented as robust and rough in appearance, with the heads and bodies of men, but with ears pointed like those of animals, and short horns and tails. They were frolicsome and addicted to various kinds of sensual enjoy- ment. Hesiod describes them as a good-for- nothing race. They were represented as the sons of Hermes and Iphthima. The older ones were called Sileni. The satyrs are some- times confounded by the Latin poets with the Italian fauns, although originally distinct be- ings, and in ancient pictures and bass reliefs so represented. One of the most celebrated statues of antiquity was the satyr of Praxi- teles* at Athens. The word is used by Pliny to indicate a kind of ape. SACK, a S. W. county of Wisconsin, drained by the Barraboo river, and traversed by the Chicago and Northwestern railroad ; area, about 900 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 23,860. The Wisconsin river crosses the N. E. corner and borders the county S. E. and S. The surface is hilly and well timbered, and the soil fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 487,416 bushels of wheat, 410,710 of Indian corn, 510,- 125 of oats, 210,518 of potatoes, 29,578 tons of hay, 61,081 Ibs. of wool, 513,080 of but- ter, and 1,250,269 of hops. There were 6,030 horses, 7,250 milch cows, 8,601 other cattle, 18,766 sheep, and 13,374 swine; 7 manufac- tories of carriages and wagons, 3 of furniture, 2 of machinery, 2 of woollen goods, 1 blast furnace, 2 iron founderies, 5 flour mills, 10 saw mills, and 6 breweries. Capital, Barraboo. SAUL (Heb. Shaut), the first king of Israel, son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin. He had four, or according to some six sons, three of whom, including Jonathan, the intimate friend of David, fell with their father in the battle against the Philistines at Mount Gilboa (about 1055 B. C.), and one of whom, Ishbosheth, for two years maintained himself as king of all the tribes except Judah. He had also two daughters, Merab, the first born, and Michal, the wife of David. (For the history of his reign see HEBREWS, vol. viii., p. 582.) SULIY, Louis Felirlen Joseph Calgnart de, a French antiquary, born in Lille, March 19, 1807. He was an officer of artillery, and af- terward keeper of the museum of artillery in Paris. In 1836 the French institute awarded him a prize for his Essai de classification de suites monetaires byzantines; and in 1842 he became a resident member of the academy of inscriptions. He studied the Celtiberian, Phoenician, Egyptian, and cuneiform inscrip- tions; and in 1850 he explored the Dead sea and announced that he had found the ruins of Sodom, and had identified the " tombs of the kings" at Jerusalem as the royal sepulchres of Judah. He has published Voyage autour de la mer Morte et dam les terres billiquea (2 vols. 4to, with maps and drawings, Paris, 1852-'4) ; Etudes sur la numismatique ju- dalque, and Histoire de Part judalque, tiree des textes sacres et profanes (1858) ; Les expe- ditions de Cesar en Grande- Bretagne (1860); Voyage en Terre-Sainte (2 vols., 1865) ; Lea demiers jours de Jerusalem (1866) ; Histoire d^fferode, roi des Juifs (1867); Etude chro- nologique des litres d'Esdras et de Nehemie (1868) ; Sept siecles de Vhistoire judalque de- puis la prise de Jerusalem par Nebuchodo- nosor jusqu'a la prise de Bettir par les Ro- mains (1874) ; and Numismatique de la Terre- Saint* (1874). S.ULT STE, MARIE. See SAINT MARY'S STRAIT. SUM STE. MARIE, or Sanlt de SU>. Marie. I. A village and the county seat of Chippewa co., Michigan, on St. Mary's strait, at the foot of the rapids, and on the ship canal connect- ing the navigation of Lakes Huron and Supe- rior, 290 m. N. by W. of Detroit, and 145 m. E. of Marquette; pop. in 1870, 1,213. The village is pleasantly situated on the site of an ancient French fort and missionary station. Fort Brady was built here in 1822 by the Uni- ted States government, but it is now aban- doned. The inhabitants are mostly French Canadians and Indians, and they subsist by exchanging furs, fish, and maple sugar with the vessels that touch here, for provisions and manufactured goods. The village contains three hotels and two churches, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic. II. A port of entry and the capital of Algoma district, Ontario, Cana- da, opposite the preceding; pop. in 1871, 879. It is pleasantly situated, and contains Episco- pal, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist churches. Many of the inhabitants are en- gaged in the fur trade and fisheries. 8AUMAISE. See SALMASIUS. SAUMUR, a town of France, in the depart- ment of Maine-et-Loire, on the left bank of the Loire, 25 m. S. E. of Angers; pop. in 1872, 12,552. It is built partly on a steep hill surmounted by an old castle, now used as a town hall. A handsome bridge connects the lower town with a suburb on the opposite bank. Some of the churches are of great antiquity. Saumur has a celebrated school of cavalry, and manufactories of linen, glass, enamelled articles, leather, and saltpetre. It was formerly a stronghold of the Protestants, who had here an academy and a theological seminary, which were suppressed in 1685. In June, 1793, it was taken by the Vendeans, after a battle, and retaken by the republicans.