Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-09

halo which is made to surround the heads of
saints in pictures hung upon the walls of
churches. The halos were often made OF
shining metal, in the form which one may see
in old engravings. In the course of time the
colors of the picture faded. leaving the metal,
which was shaped almost exactly like a
horseshoe. Ignorant people, not knowing It's
character. might easily accept it as a horse
shoe. and from its hanging in a sacred place
would naturally regard 1t with superstItlous
reverence.
For twenty years quaint character named
Ogilvie Stannard. had lived on a small island
in Pelham Bay, West Of Chester county, \.
Z, without anything happening to him.
" hiie drunk last week Stannard fell through
the ties Of railroad bridge. but caught on
spike and was saved. An hour later he was
rescued while asleep on the track before an
approaching train. In the afternoon he fe
from his boat into the bay, but was caught by
the bridge tender again. As they were APP
preaching the shore, however, he fell out and
was drowned.
LAST Thursday. during the storm, hail
storm occurred on top of the Washington
monument but not one of the frozen pellets
reached the earth. The stones were so large
as to severely sting the faces of the men,
against which they were driven by the sharp
gale, and the fact that they were all melted
before they touched ground would seem to
indicate a much lower temperature at the
summit than at the base of the shaft, though
the size Of the particles would naturally be
diminished somewhat during their whole
course through the atmosphere from their
starting point.
AT sunset, when the atmosphere is clear
and the sun unobscured, a beautiful phe-
nOmenon is observable from the top of Wash
ington monument. Long after the sun has
passed from view at the base it is still shining
bright ana strong against the summit. high IN
air. The result is that strong shadow OF the
upper part OF the monument only Is projected
across the sward of the Smithsonian ground
to the eastward. OF course it is not possible
for persons on a level with the earth to OBJ
serve this novel exhibition. Perhaps no other
elevation in the world would furnish IN itself
such novel and conclusive evidence OF great
height.
FRAU SCHAFFER, said to be the handsomest
woman in Vienna, was summoned before the
authorities, charged with appearing in
semi clad condition at the back windows.
The defense was that the lady was simply
making her toilet with the window open. The
Judge, in summing up the case, said: If she
had looked out of the front window, the scan
dial would have been open and public. and an
Odense against the law would have been COM
mitted. But as she only appeared at the back
windows, the case was different" Defendant
was dismissed and recommended for the
future to pull down the blinds before COM
mencing her toilet.
THE city Of New Orleans is built on swampy,
low land, almost in the delta Of the Missis-
sippi Many large buildings are slowly set
thing into the soft earth, or getting into
leaning position. The custom house, COM
menced so many years ago that the memory
of the oldest Inhabitant does not run to the
contrary. has never been finished, stands to-
day without a permanent roof, IS sinking an
inch in six years, and if the world will last
long enough it is only a question Of time as to
when the officials in the lower floor will have
to move up one story, and keep on moving at
stated intervals until they get to that part
where the roof ought to be.
HIGH up on one of the rounded bluffs that
lock in the Bosphorus, about five miles above
Constantinople, stands a large fve-story
building of scholastic architecture, the local
habtation of Robert College, a striking
monument Of American philanthropy abroad.
1t was founded in 1863 by the well-knOwn
phlanthrOpist whose name it bears, and was
maintained by him at no little personal sac
rifice until his death in 1878. 1t has faculty
of II professors and tutors, an attendance OF
from 30 to $50 students, and has educated
over GOO young men. Turkish officials did
everything that human ingenuity could de-
wise to crush out the school at first, employing
honorable and dishonOrable means alike.