Salathiel, the Wandering Jew, a romance by George Croly (1821).

Salchichon, a huge Italian sausage. Thomas duke of Genoa, a boy at Harrow school, put forward by general Prim as an “inflated candidate” for the Spanish throne, was nicknamed “Salchichon” by the Spaniards.

Saleh. The Thamûdites proposed that Sáleh should, by miracle, prove that Jehovah was a God superior to their own. Prince Jonda said he would believe it, if Sâleh made a camel, big with young, come out of a certain rock which he pointed out. Sâleh did so, and Jonda was converted.

(The Thamûdites were idolaters, and Sâleh the prophet was sent to bring them back to the worship of Jehovah.)

Sâleh’s Camel. The camel thus miraculously produced, used to go about the town, crying aloud, “Ho! every one that wanteth milk, let him come, and I will give it him.”—Sale: Al Korân, vii. notes. (See Isa. Iv. I.)

Saleh, son of Faras’chê queen of a powerful under-sea empire. His sister was Gulna’rê empress of Persia. Saleh asked the king of Samandal, another under-sea emperor, to give his daughter Giauha’rê in marriage to prince Beder, son of Gulnarê; but the proud, passionate despot ordered the prince’s head to be cut off for such presumptuous insolence. However, Saleh made his escape, invaded Samandal, took the king prisoner, and the marriage between Beder and the princess Giauharê was duly celebrated.—Arabian Nights (“Beder and Giauharê”).

Salem, a young seraph, one of the two tutelar angels of the Virgin Mary and of John the Divine, “for God had given to John two tutelar angels, the chief of whom was Raph’ael, one of the most exalted seraphs of the hierarchy of heaven.”—Klopstock: The Messiah, iii. (1748).

Salemal, the preserver in sickness, one of the four gods of the Adites .—D’Herbelot: Bibliothèque Orientale (1697).

Salern or Salerno, in Italy, celebrated for its school of medicine.

Even the doctors of Salern
Send me back word they can discern
No cure for a malady like this.

Longfellow: The Golden Legend (1851).

Salian Franks. So called from the Isala or Yssel, in Holland. They were a branch of the Sicambri; hence when Clovis was baptized at Rheims, the old prelate addressed him as “Sigambrian,” and said that “he must henceforth set at nought what he had hitherto worshipped, and worship what he had hitherto set at nought.”

Salisbury (Earl of), William Longsword, natural son of Henry II. and Jane Clifford “The Fair Rosamond.” —Shakespeare: King John (1596); sir W. Scott: The Talisman (time, Richard I.).

Sallust of France (The). César Vichard (1639–1692) was so called by Voltaire.

Sally in our Alley, a ballad in seven stanzas, by Henry Carey (1737).

Of all the girls that are so smart
There’s none like pretty Sally;
She is the darling of my heart,
And she lives in our alley.

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