Iron County Record | 1904-09-10 | Page 2 | Curiosities of the Sea

CURIOSITIES OF THE SEA. Showing How Oysters Attach Themselves Them-selves to Foreign Objects. Tho facility with which oysters attach at-tach thomsolvei-to leather is shown by tho plcturo of a child's shoo very woll covered. Tho oyster growing out of tho bowl of an old clay plpo has tho appearanco of a puff of smoko just Issuing and Is a verltablo bit of nature's sculpture accomplished beneath be-neath tho sea. Theso aro but a fow of many interesting specimens of oyster-nttnehment dredged up from oyster bods, yet they give a completo demonstration of tho readiness of this blvnlvo to attach Itself to anything, A Child's Shoe Covered With Oysters. Oyster Fastened to a Pipe-Bowl, and show, bosldW, -somo of tho curl-osltlcshataruLbo curl-osltlcshataruLbo fpjnd beneath th6 surface offb.6 water. Montreal Herald. '