Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1890 — Oysters of Portly Size. [ARTICLE]

Oysters of Portly Size.

The biggest edible oysters in the world are found at Port Lincoln, in South Australia. They are as large as a dinner-plate, and .the same shape. They are sometimes more than a foot across the shell, and the oyster fits his shell so well he does not leave much margin. It is a new sensation, when a friend asks you to lunch at Adelaide to have one oyster set before you fried in butter or eggs and bread-crumbs. But it is a very pleasant sensation, for the flavor and delicacy of the Port Lincoln mammoths are proverbial in that land of luxuries. —Pittsburg Dispatch. M. Mosso, of Turin, has found that the fresh blood of fishes acts as a powerful poison when injected into the circulation of mammals. The venomous property exists in the serum, is destroyed by the putrefying process, by heating to some 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit, by alkalies, and by mineral and organic acids, except carbonic acid.