Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — Oyster Life. [ARTICLE]

Oyster Life.

A spawning oyster, it is estimated, may deposit a million of eggs in a season, Of whjch only from ten to one hundred will leach maturity, all others being devoured by enemies. Marketable oysters vary,in age from three to seven years. The age which oysters may reach nnder favorable circfimstances is yet unknown, but specimens have been found which were l>elieyed to be from twerfty-five to thirty years old. With care the bivalves may he kept alive for a considerable time after removal from their habitat. It is stated that they have lived on the floor of a cold cellar for three months, and one observer concludes that they may exist even longer if packed so as to keep their shells closed in ventilated barrels and kept at a temperature between thirty-five and forty-five degrees Fahrenheit. The Truest Test of a Bachelor; .-> “At*what age is an unmarried man a bachelor ?” asks a subscriber. When he can take a pretty widow for a moonlight walk and not ask her to marry him before returning home. —New York Graphic. 0k517/Students at the* University of California. 319 intend tq. prautico law, . >■ ‘V.