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Show Oyster 80 Year Old. An oyster eighty years old has been taken from Delaware bay, It Is reported. report-ed. Scientific Investigators agree and assert that the age of an oyster Is Indicated In-dicated by' the ridges or waterllnes on its shell, Just as the age of a tree Is Indicated by the annual rings that form on Its trunk. A ridge appears on an oyster every year, according to these savants, up to the fortieth year. After that the shell takes on one only every ten years. This venerable Delaware oyster had 44 ridges; hence It was eighty years old. |