Show ONE OYSTER O STER PED 75 o It Weighed Pounds lo Potin i s and Was Found Near Ner Buffalo Philadelphia P delphta North h hA desnA A most remarkable oyster 07 r has recently re recently been b n take from fram Niagara river riverby riverby riverby by two Buffalo fishermen fisherman The shell alone atone without the meat weighs 1 pounds and ud is two feet eight tight inches across and nineteen inches broad It contained fifty genuine pearls That it might be proven that this wonderful tale was no fish story the oyster was placed on exhibition for a week at a e Buffalo saloon where the public was bidden bidd n to come and see it The meat was 5 cooked and made into inta a stew which filled tilled to the brim two pails Seven ty ve men partook of the repast it furnished The fishermen made the a find when their net caught on Oft a snag of at some sort 8 rt and was held fast fut As the water was as shallow not more than waist deep one Ofte of them th m jumped from the boat to ta investigate and aid found the net attached to what seemed a big rock It was covered with a white sub substance substance substance stance resembling re lime IUne and its peculiar pe peculia culiar culia appearance induced the fisher fishermen fishermen r men to take it ashore with them There when it was was as washed off 0 they the discovered to their amazement that they bad had a mammoth oyster |