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Show OALVESTON BAY OYSTERS. "Iho oyster that Is brought to tho flalveston tinrket," said a traveling man at the Tremont last night, Ms the finest In the world I have eaten o)slera In every clime, but there nro noun to compare com-pare with those found In tho wan rB tint surround this Is) mil Tho Chesapeake Iny ovster. which llnda Its way to the till. lis In Ilaltlmiio and Washington, nnd the boasted Ila)ou Conk, so largely consumed con-sumed In New Orleans, nro supposed to be ixcellent, and so the) an, but to the pahto that has once tasted those that are served hero tho otheia seem flat and without II ivnr. 'J hern la nothing so good ns the delicious small testers taken from (lalvennii biv They have a dellento flavor, thit Is callf)lns to the cpl-ctiiean. cpl-ctiiean. Hnlijett other ovstcra to tho hniiln necessary to mike a stop or slew and the cooked o)ster generally becomes be-comes as lllilpl I ay a pleve of rag. Not Po with the Island bivalve lie remains an ovster to tho end of the chapter. "Reversl )eara ago a ballad was written writ-ten which set Inrlh In mournful numbers num-bers the sorruns of a Ihiardlng-hnuse nys. ter At ever) meal Iho poor fellow wculd make a plalnllvo appeal to (he boarders 'not to eit me, sir, for I would lose m) Job, for 1 am tho only oyster bete' I wish 1 could sing the praises of the ftilveston oyster In a inatnlllcent epic " Onlveslon News, |