Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — Big Oysters are Sick. [ARTICLE]

Big Oysters are Sick.

The enormous oyster shells displayed in front of a popular restaurant are an abnormal growth. In the Indian Ocean the shells sometimes reach an extraordinary size, but the remarkable thickness is caused by a disease, which, to the oyster, is something like elephantiasis to the man. The disease is common enough among oysters, but it is rare that so exaggerated a case is seen as in the huge shells already mentioned.—[New York Journal.