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GREAT SAI.ES OF IVORY. HEW ELEPHANTS’ TUSKS ABE DIS POSED OP ABROAD. Something: About the Malting ot Knife-Handles, Etc.— Where the World’s Supply Comes From. ¥ OUB times a year, in January, April, July and October, ivory sales are held, aDd the display of the goods in the warehouse is one of the strange sights of London, says a writer in Leisure Honrs. The floor is crowded with ivory of all sorts and sizes, •in tusks and sections, and odds and ends, some of it in huge teeth weighing seventy pounds each, some mere trifles of twenty pounds apiece, some mere pygmy “scrivelloes,” and — crooked, cracked, hollow, decayed and broken. On every lot is a big clumsy number, and every assemblage of lots has a no tice board giving the broker’s name and the first and last numbers of the lots he has to sell. The wilderness of teeth seems all in movement round the gigan tic pair of traveling scales in the centre; the curving tusks are like so many worms, all strangely scratched and scribed, and are of all colors from white, through the browns, to almost black; and an expert can tell at a glance where each came from, and can sort the lots from the pink Calcutta to tho black West Coast which comes wrapped up in the raw hides bearing tho mysterious name of “schroons.” What would an elephant think if he .were to get a peep at this floor so crowded with his relatives’ incisors? Here would be a tnemeato mori for him more significant than that of the mummy '%isks at an Egyptian feast I Each pair of means a life, for the elephant is yet ignorant of the dentist’s forceps, Tfiad although we hear of elephants driven with tho toothache and have apecimeus of tusk disease in our College of Surgeons’ Museum; and the few cases of monstrosities having three, four, and even nine tusks at a time may bo disre garded. Mr. Stanley tells us that in the Congo basin there are 200,000 elephants, each with fifty pounds of ivory in his jaws, the total being worth half a million of money; but even that stock would soon be exhausted if the Congo alone had to fill this floor four times a year. And besides the London sales there are sales at Liverpool and Antwerp and Rotterdam. Most of theLiverpoolivory comes from the West Coast of Africa, and a quarter of it goes to Sheffield, a quarter to London, and half to Germany, France and the United States. To the ***■*:£ sales the ivof^tomes from all parts. time when, There was a according to Polybius, the Ethiopian made his door posts and fences of ivory; and when the .ivory trade declined with the fall of Rome, tho market became so glutted that ivory could bo had for the asking. And, according to native tradition, the elephant, within a few centuries, was used as food, and his tiuks were treated as bones and thrown away. But that is not the case now, and through the length and breadth of the continent he is hunted for his teeth alone—not, however, for his eye-teeth, for he has none, but for his incisors. It is the timber problem over-again. It takes as many minutes to cut down a tree as it took years to grow it, and it takes considerably more years for an elephant to grow his tusks than it takes minutes to kill him. John Ray says that Vertomannus saw in Sumatra a pair of tusks weighing 336 pounds, and there are records of single tusks weighing as much as 200 pounds. But nowadays the ordinary tusks average about three to the hundredweight, so that 15,000 elephants would have to be killed to furnish the British market, and some say 75,000 are killed a year. And as the elephant dees not begin to breed until he is thirty years old, and averages but one youngster every ten years after that until he is ninety, the rate of in crease is much too slow to overtake the slaughter. But all the ivory does not come from Africa, a good deal of it comes from In dia; and a very little of the Indian ivory is obtained without killing the animal, owing to its being the custom to cut a captive elephant’s tusks every ten years. From the Malay Peninsula and the islands thereabouts, there is a fair ivory trade direct with China, and the nests of balls, which are the highest achievement of ivory turning, are al most invariably made from the island teeth. These balls are a terrible puzzle until an hour or so’s careful manipulation re veals how they are managed. By careful shifting it will be found that all the larger hole3’come opposite each other, and that it is down these shafts that the work has been done. The Chinaman ha3 made probably diminishing fourteen holes in the solid ball, as they approach the center. Down the walls of these conical shafts he ba3 spaced out the number of layers he requires, and begin ning with the smallest ball, he has cut each layer free and carved it. It ha9 been a long job evidently, and as a matter of fact he has worked five days, on an average, at each ball, and for his three months’ work he was probably paid at the rate of five shillings a week, which is first-class pay for a Chinaman. The tusks for billiard balls fetch the highest price in the trade; as much as $550 per hundredweight has been for them, which is more than double the rate for the ordinary kinds. As ivory ages the water it contains evaporates, and for this reason the Tithe will tion not of use the ivory fluid scales, as the evapora-1 makes them alter in length and breadth. Both chemically and mechanically ivory is intermediate between horn and bone. It cannot be torn into filaments like horn, and it is not so brittle as bone, nor does it splinter. It is essentially equivalent to dentine, and the fine tubes running crookedly outward give it the grain ir which much of its strdSgth and beauty consists, and make it the aglftt suitable material for ornamental "fuming and carving. old Carving on i^jry almost, is almost as as the mammoth, but not quite, for tho mammotl/ must have had time to grow his tusks. SELECT SIFTINGS. There are no telegraph poles in China. The Chinese eat the flesh of the dog. Letter postage costs ns $48,000,000 a year. In Hialopen Strait snow may fall even in the dog days. Arkansas has a wonderful onyx cavo in the Ozark Mountains. An ordinary day coach weighs about 50,000 pounds; Pullman sleepers weigh about 75,000 pounds. In Silesia the thermometer registers about thirty degrees below zero for a considerable part of the year. The Chinese, Japanese, Malays, Siam ese, New Zealanders and the North American Indians are all beardless. The tortoise is the longest lived of all animals. Many have attained the age of 250 years, while one is known to havo reached the age of 450 years. has A dictionary of Chinese-Japanese words just been issued in three parts. It is by J. H. Gubbins, and is a very valuable contribution to philological literature. There is a treo In Jaraaici known as the life tree on account of its leaves growing even after being severed from the plant; only by fire can it be entirely destroyed. There are many superstitions about funerals. Pew people like to cross them in the streets, and men and women ap parently sensible stand and wait to let them pass. The curdling of milk by means of ren net has been practiced for centuries. The first mention of cheese is in the Hebrew Scriptures by David, and the .manufac ture of the article has always been a well known process. The permanent gibbet erected in tho San Quentin (Cal.) Prison has a singular provision of three cords to be simul taneously cut by three prison guards. These cords ara- s«-#.mngg^_that none, of the guards will know whose knifo sprung the trap and “launched into eternity” tho gentleman standing on it. In Turkey, if a man fall asleep in tho neighborhood of a poppy field, and the wind blow from the field toward him, he becomes narcotized, and would die, if the country people, who aro well ac quainted with the circumstances, did not bring him to a well or stream and empty pitcher after pitcher of water on his face and body. A five-foot alligator escaped from a Bowery museum, in New York City, and attracted the attention of a policeman. The officer, thinking it dead, struck it playfully with his club. The animal opened its huge jaws and seized the club. The policeman, fearing it was about to “take him in” also, hurriedly retreated. Ten minutes later the museum keeper re covered the animal, and restored the club to its owner. Morningside Park, New York City, has in its curiosities a species of cactus, apparently native and voluntary. It grows in great abundance on the wall of almost perpendciular rock opposite 116th street, clinging tenaciously to every coigne of vantage offered by the irregu larities of the rock. The conditions pre sented by the rocks at that point seem admirably suited to the cactus, for tho soil is thin and dry, and the face of tho rocks being turned directly toward the morning sun the temperature for many hours is almost tropical. A Lonely Voyage. Captain P. Vehling has arrived at San Francisco, Cal., with the steam launch Kussiioff from Alaska. During a peril ous voyage he has been obliged to act not only as captain but also as cabin boy, cook and crew of the little vessel. Years ago the launch Kussiioff wai sunk off Karluk, Alaska. Vehling bought tho boat for a trifling sum, and early this season, after providing her with schooner rigging, shipped a crew and prepared for a trading trip among the Indians. One day Vehling allowed hitmen to go ashore at Karluki About noon a heavy wind came up and the vessel broke her cable and drifted out to sea. Vehlmg made the b–/£ of the situation and steered thi*«*boat out to sea. By dusk the Kussiioff was out of sight of land, and all that night the wind blew a gale. the helm and Vehling stood by scud ded under bare poles. Next morning toward the wind changed and blew him the San Juan archipelago. The captain saw it was impossible to make Karluk', and turned the bow of the boat toward San Francisco. At night Captain Vehling would shorten sail a bit, tie his rudder, and go to sleep in the cabin. He cooked his own meals, manned his own boat, and was king and captain of all he looked npon. The Kussiioff proved herself aa j excellent sailor.—Chicago Times. Nothing Got Away. aSSssraSisafsi" deed recorded in Pettis county lllus on in «K« instruments in early timet. In ad dittos ooaetdofetlon to forty acres of dollars, land sold for a WSftt eouirow of ,l all fifty and singular—appurt- the doou oooaoes, ip^endt^saa, cwnailageS, ad vowsoos, houses, benefits, oomtoons, cow com «rflto dairietpdoTeeots, freeholds, casements, furniture, emol ument#, fixtures, gardens, homestalU, features, improve marshes, ments, immunities, mines,minerals, limekilns, meadows, pleasure grounds, pigeon orchards, parks, styes, quarries, remainders, houses, pig rente, rights, reversions, ways, (yrater courses, wind mills, together with every other necessary right, whatsoever immunity, privilege and advavtage of name, nature or descrip The Very Worst. Fanny’s mother had company to tea-— a gentleman with whom the child was a preat favorite, and at whose request the little girl was allowed, contrnry to the general rule, to have a seat at the table. During the progress of the meal the little woman was unfortunate enough to tip oyer her bowl of bread and milk. The ilisaster was so appalling that she settled back in her high chair and gazed at what seemed to her Utter ruin. At last, as if the full extent of the catastrophe had just dawned upon her, she drew a long breath and said, “And the best table cloth, tool” After sponging patent leather with warm rub water just and little letting it dry, oil while in still warm a sweet it, then rub it well out of It, Bulrushes Shaken by tbo Wi»l Do not vibrate to the passing wind moro readi ly than weak nerves vibrato to tho slightest noise or other trivial cause of their disturb ance, which would be disregarded by the vig orous. That benignant tonic, Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters, strengthens them through the remedies medium their of restored digestion, and thus kidney and liver super-sensitiveness. complaint and Malaria are cured by the Bitters. " constipation The matches made yearly uro worth 818^000,000. For Impure or tuin Blood, Weakness, Mala take ria Neuralgia, Brown’s Iron Indigestion, Rltters—it and Biliousness, - making oid feel gives strength, persons strong; persons pleasant to youug-and take. young In 1859 Bonelli deviled a method, o. nstlng eleotnoity in weaving. ) A Matter of Life or Death. mi>8 Do k | Liur know veins that is the the state cause of of the your blood sickness run or tor, you al ■jalth? ovcrlo This is a most I. important mftt ow o I po and f.W luoOd latter deal, is take is ofte«W5S3ossibw; if costs M great and tftkeiyup Ara after disease has gained a toothol L morsJSwellings, If aro troubled Skin with Disease, Syphilis, Rheumatism, Itch, .... Plmires. Llvei and Scrofula, Kidney Malaria, diseases. Catarrh, Old Sores, Fevers, Erup tions; blood, or any other disorders resulting from im pure write at once to Dr. S, C, Parsons, Savannah, derful remedy, Ga. and His Blood only Purifier la dollar a won bott’e. Send pamphlet costs one per zo stamp for containing a lot nf private and Valuable information. Dr. Parsons Female Regulating Inin Pills are very effi cacious. Write to without delay. Our old reliable eye-water cures weak or in Pries flamed 35o, eyes John or granulated Dickey Drug lids Co., without Bristol, pain. R. Va The Only One Ever Printed. CAN Yon FIND THE WORD? this There paper, is this a 3-lnch week, display which has advertisement no two words in aliko except one word. The same is true of eochnew one appearing each week, from Tho Dr, “Orescent” Harter Medicine Oo. This house places a publish' Look on everything send they mako and for it, will them the name of the word and they return you jiook , BEAUTIFUL LITHOGRAPHS or SAMPLES FItEK. J. 8. PARKER, for Fredonia, tho N. reward, Y.,says: “Shall not lieve cal) Hall’s on you Catarrh Cure $100 will for 1 be- of cure any oase catarrh. Was very had.” Write him for par ticulars. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Dyspepsia, and impaired digestion, will weak stomach, relieved beecham’s constipation Pills. 25 be Instantly by cents a box. If afflicted with sore ©yes use Dr- Isaac Thomp- botfcfe. son’s Eyo-water.Drucrcrffitte sell at 25c per Indigestion Cured 1 havo for years been troubled with distress in % my stomach and indiges tion. When. I took Hood’s Saraaparilla the effect was surpris ing. It and gave I mo great l<1 relief, now eat without that terrible dis Wm. Wa do. tress. I also rest well at night and am in good general SARSAPARIL- health, for all of which I thank Wade, HOOD’S LA.” Wm. Boot and Hlioo dealer, 17 Merrimack Street, Lowell , Mass. Hood’s Pills oure 11 vor ills, constipation,bil ousness, jaundice ai d rjick headache. Try them Young Mothers! We Offer Ton a Stemedy which Insure s Safety to life of Mother and Child, “ ^ MOTHER’S FRIEND ” Hobs Confinement of its Pain, Horror andliish. After ushigone bottle of« 4 Mother’s Friend" l suffered but little pain, and did not experience that weakness afterward usual in such cases.—Mrs. Asian Oaok, Lamar, Mo., Jan. 15th, 1881. Sent t by express, chargee prepaid, on receipt of price, #1.50 per bottle. Book to Mothers mailed f roe. BRADFIELDRECIILATOa CO., ATLANTA, GA. BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Hite tens \ 8maM Positively cure Sick-headache. 40 to the bottle. Price 25c. Reliable, Econom ical. Sold by druggists .J > Sample Package Mailed Free. Address Small Bile Beans. New Yo rk. The St. Louis Chief of Police requires the 1000 Chinese in that city to be photographed. Long be spells of sickness and heavy dootor bills can prevented by using in time Bile Beans atnalU There are 525,000 Congregationalists in the Unitea States. —fiSwlTBUeBeaB** * iVer plUs and oure of tener A will ion dollar sugar refinery is to be built it Brooklyn, N. Y. To aid Digestion take one Small Bile Bean after eatin g, gSo . ger bottle^_ There were 1600 railroad accidents in New Jersey last year. Constipation cured by Small Bile Beans. Some of the African tribes pull their fingers till the joints crack b,b a form a salutation. •-r-r-*?—■*- Indige8ti–rf. Fob Dyspepsia, and Stomach disorders, lonfo, it rebuilds nee Brown’s Iron Bitter*. The Best the system, cleans the Blood and strengthens the muscles. A splendid ton lc tor weak and debilitated persons. The thermometer has been proven to be the invention of Galileo in 1506. gyKDPffiGs mi ■./ft . ■; ! 0 . av V m frmmmMpm ONl$ ®NJOY® Both the method and results •when Syrup and refreshing of Figs is taken; it is pleasant to the taste, and acts gently Liver and yet promptly Bowels, on the Kidneys, cleanses the sys aches tem effectually, and fevers dispels and colds, habitual head cures constipation. only remedy Syrup of Figs is the of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable its action to the stomach, prompt in and truly beneficial m its effects, prepared only from the most healthy excellent and agreeable substances, commend its many qualities it to all and have made it the most popular Syrup^^Figs remedy known. sale 50 is for in c am l ea( h n ff drug druggist who Bjumi will pro one wisi ,ceept any eubstitutS CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N.Y, “German Syrup” Justice of the Peace, George Wil kinson, of I/iwville, Murray Co., Minn., makes a deposition concern ing a severe cold. Listen to it. “In the Spring of 1888, through ex posure I contracted a very severe cold that settled on my lungs. This was accompanied by excessive night sweats. One bottle of Bosckee’s German Syrup broke up tbe cold, night sweats, and all and left me in a good, healthy condition. I can give German Syrup my mosteamest commendation.” © Conaamptlvea and people who have weak lung, or Asth ma, ahoald use Pleo’o Cure tor Consumption. It has eured thousand*. It has had not Injur- take, ed one. It Is cough not to it Is tbe best syrup, Bold everywhere. ®Se. GOING TO BUILD? Send for Illustrated Catalogue, containing 26 hand some designs, FREE. Address HHOPPELL’8 MODERN UOXJMK8, 03 Broadway, New York A. N. U. ......Thirty-sevi n, ’92 valueforyourtnoney. chasing .elf mize IT IS and in A your W. fumlly DUTYyouovroyonr- L. footwear Douglas to get the by Econo- Shoes. pur- best W. L. DOUGLAS which velue thonsands taF-TAKE for represent NQ will priaes SUBSTITUTE. testify. asked, tbe best os $3 SHOE GENTLEMEN, FOR A genuine sewed ahoo, that will not rip, fine calf, soemJ* smooth inside, flexible, more comfortable,stylish and durable tu any other shoe ever uold at tho price. Equals custom made shoes coating from $4 to $5. <3*>B and $5 Ilnnd-sewed, fine calf shoes. The most stylish. easy and durable shoes ever sold at these prices. They equal fine imported 50 shoes costing Shoe, from #8 to #13. and all who #–*> x'oiico good heavy worn calf, three by farmers soled, extension others edge shoe, vwo want a and easy to walk in, and will $‘£.$5 keep the feet dry warm. (go 50 Fine C’nlf, and %% Workingmen's than Shoe# will give moro wear for tho money any other make. They are mode for service. The increasing sales show that work* ingmen have found this out. BOYS’ *i> and by Youths’ everywhere. 91.55 School The Shoes are worn the boys most service* ablo shoos sold at these prices. 1 LALf ibu 93 Shoes Hand-Sowed, for Misses 92.50,8‘2 made of the end hast SI,?* Doa are gala or fine Calf, durable. as desired. #3 They are very stylish, com* 'J : fortablo and Tho shoo equals custom m–do shoos costing from #1 to #<;. Ladies who wish to ecoarf* IIPaIs tnixo in UTION. their footwear aro of tindlng dealers this substituting out. shoes with, j (J A —Dewaro out W. L. Douglas’ name and the price stamped on bottom* ASK PAR in W. « L. nAHA! DOUGLAS OMftrfi SHOES. Such substitutions arc fraudulent under and subject false toprolerii run tlon by law for obtaining monoy pretences, i If not for uni© In your place send direct to »nlo Factory, stating dealer* kind, and size general and width wanted. Pontage free. Will give exclusive to shoe Brockton, 2Ua**t in cir* chant* where I have no agents. Write for Catalogue. W. 1*. Douglas, ft tec . ii surf •s LISH \ xv?tb Pastes, Enamels, and Paints which stain the hands, Rising injure the iron, and burn off. The Sun Stove Polish is Brilliant, Odor less. Durable, and with the consumer purchase. pays lor no tin or glass package every wL/little OVER ii Vrjjk BO SOT PILLS GRIPE HOR SICK®. NB–jSn sore ACHE, euro tor SICK HEAD m wfeftr Impaired dlg«.tl skssp 0 «, oonrtt g M«*lc»l on few “ -} w bi**? and bladder. Conquer 2 s o A 118 nervous dis blOOd. Beautify PlIBRLY complexion VBOETA1U.E. by purifying The close is rlcely adjusted to suit cans as on. pill can nererljotoo much. Each viol contains «, carried in vast pocket,, like lead pencil. Business mart's Creak convenience. Taken easier than sugar. Sold every where. All genuine goods bear “Crescents” Send 2-cent stamp. You get 32 page book with sample. DR. HARTER 81EDICIME CO.. SI. Louis. Ma AN ASTONISHING TONIC FOR WOMEN. 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Headache, Dyspepsia, Heartburn, Font* Loss* “ – of Appetite, Mental Depression,# « Painful Complexion, Digestion, Tired Pimple*, Feeling-, Sallow# and# •blood, $ every symptom or by disease the stomach, resulting liver from intpsfcmesf impure# orafaflure functions. Permmjriven or toT X to perform their proper aTABUl.E after® a over-cattng are benefited by taking A treats Wanted; EIGHTY per cent profit. J5«0SI5MSa LIQHTNIMQ PLATE* W »ndplating jtwQlry.watoLie* tabloware, *o. Plate* tho Qacat of jewelrj good as new, on nirkindsof met»| with gold, silver or nickel. fi No experience. No capital. Uvery house has goods necd ■§ ing plating. |5. Write Wholesale to liars. agents for circa H. C. DLLNO As y Co., Columbus, O.