Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — A Singular Phenomenon. [ARTICLE]

A Singular Phenomenon.

The Panama Star and Herald reports a curious phenomenon as having occurred at Aspinwall during the past month, and calls upon fee scientific for an explanation. The beach, says feat journal, is of coral formation, and extends from the lighthouse eastward along the northern shore of Manzanilla Island for a mile or more, and is open to the Caribbean. Upon fee night in question, or rather on fee morning following, this whole distance was covered wife a deposit of a deep-vivid-indigo-blue—something resembling a broad ribbon stretched along fee limits of high-tide, which, there, amounts to only about eighteen inches. Beholders were startled by this very peculiar appearance, and it was at first thought that perhap* Ola Neptune and the Tagus indigo business might hive had something to do wife, it; nor was curiosity allayed In fee slightest when a closer examination revealed fee ichthyological fact that this blue deposit consisted of millions of a peculiar, fiat, shapeless sort of jelly-fish, smaller than fee hand, roubded in contour, with a slightly raised ridge running what would seem to be fore and aft over the back. Everybody looked and wondered, but fee wisest—and there are some perfect Solomons in that city—could not make out wbat they were, or what such a singular and sudden phenomenon meant. The next day all the bright color had faded out, and fee gelatinous deposit, although giving out a strong, unpleasant odor, dried up and socn disappeared.