Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — Artificial Oysters in Paris. [ARTICLE]

Artificial Oysters in Paris.

Artificial oysters are now manufactured in large quantities by several oyster factories recently established in the neighborhood of Bordeaux. This new product, the making of which is kept a secret from the uninitiated, imitates the real oyster very perfectly in point of appearance, and the main difficulty of the business, the fixing of the spiduous product to the oyster shell, upon which it takes the place vacated by its prototype, is said'to have recently i been got over with perfect success. It is urged that all who eat the real oysters should carry away and destroy their shells, thus preventing them from being oressed into the service of this new alimentary fraud. To imitate oyster shells would be too costly a process, and if all the shells of the favorite bivalves could be kept out of reach of the oyster-makers the dis-’ honest trade would receive its death blow. But as that is an unattainable result, it is to be feared that lovers of oysters have an uncomfortable prospect before them. —Montreal Herald. Generosity wrong placed becometh a vice; a princely mind will undo ft private family.— Puller.