A Strange Story,

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 139, 18 May 1885, Page 3

A Strange Story,

A contributor writing to a Northern contemporary from San Francisco says: — "A few day* ago a fish dealer had an importation of oysters. T know this dealer, who has a stand m the California Market. Well he fonnd among his shellfish one of such superb dimensions that he coucladed to open it aud make his lunch thereupon. He actttj npon bis thought, aud to hit infinite amazement, found on. the surface of tlie inside shell a photograph of a lady, I need not say that all thought of swallowing that bivalve-was abandoned m the consternation produced by seeing the female. He showed it to a friend, for let me remrak here that man is as fond of gossip as ever woman was, and the friend straightway carried the opeu secret to a newspaper reporter, who at once made tracks for the scene of the mystery, for we know it was mysterions how that picture came to be there. Yet there it was, a flue likeness of" somebody's darling." The affair got wind, and presently, among the folk who flocked to the stall of the fishmonger, one man shrieked and fainted away. People who faint away always come to, and 10 did this gentleman, who then said that the photograph was one of his wife, who had been drowned by the siukfog of a ship iv the exact spot whenc|||fttoe that batch of oysters. The ca^Bßcurious one, aud the scientists &|gKf hand. They say that the oyster^npening bis shell to eat, was m such apposition that the dead woman lying down at the bottom of the sea was reflected upon the bright inside shell, and by some unknown process, photo-, graphed there and then. The husband offers much cash foe that same oyster shell; but his offers have so far been declined, and this is all 1 know of the matter ; but what I write is perfectly true.