The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-11-10

sells readily Tor $40 and Is used in trim.
ming muffs, etc. Red fox brings only
about 50 skin, depending upon the
demand.
eyes, there IS a demand for odd furs.
Certain ultra-fashionables want to make
splurge and start a fashion that spreads
ike wildtire and we are utterly unable
TO meet the demand. A few years ago
q New York fashionable woman came
out with a set of leopard skin furs and
the prices went up Immediately, so that
there is fair demand for them. Furs
are also made Of tiger skin and about
Six hundred are used annually by the
trade-all that can be got. They came
from Bengal and China and bring &C.
cording to the markings, 100 to $3.50
per skin that may be fourteen and half
feet in length, A white tiger skin is
worth about $500. They rarely reach
this country. The rage for tiger claws
became 30 great year or so ago that
the market was completely exhausted.
l know several gentlemen of sporting
tastes, who wear winter vests made OF
skins, who claim to have killed the
tigers. Lion skins are equally in de-
mand, and number OF the wildcats,
Our common wildcat presents the trade
with over II, 900 skins yearly, valued at
from 80 cents to 81.
"Ghe Thomas cat2 Well, should
say 80. The house cat one of the most
valuable of fur-bearing ANIMALS and
when they mysteriously disappear from
the back fence they often find their way
to the furrier. 1t is an actual fact that
in 1882 over l, 200, 900 house cats were
used by the fur trade. Black, white.
Maltese and tortoise-shell skins are most
in demand. They are made into Innings
and used IN philosophical apparatus. As
for skunks, $50, 900 were used in this
country last season, valued from &c
cents to $1.20. They come from Ohio
and New York principally and, as il
pursuit of the tiger and lion, the bravest
men are required.
There Is fair demand for monkey
skins and 1000 are used annually by
furriers, principally the Diana, blacl
and Abysslnlan monkeys. They art
used IN trimmings. Yes, you dom
know what fur you wear sometimes
The same garment may be trimmed
with equal parts of monkey, skunk anG
cat and sold to the cheap buyer a.
Hoang Ho seal. The skin of the hay
lynx is much used for muffs and hoas
The skin of the dog is saleable, SO j,
that of rats, mice, the opossum, kanga-
roo ornithorynchus. But hair is largel,
used in felung and in plating ropes
Immense quantities of coon hair is sen
to Germany and made into hats. o.
and calf hair ID used in the imitation o
wooden goods and great many skin
are valued merely to initiate other ar
ticles with, thus the white backed, com
mon and striped skunks dyed are mad
into muffs and boas and sold general,
under the name of Alaska sable
Bearded sealskln is used to initiate leop
ard skins Tartar sable is dyed and mad
into mutfs and sold as Russian sable
the beach marten is also made to imi
tate sable and fox skins to imitat
lynx.
sin old times ermine was the fashion
able fur, but there is not so much de
mand for it now, though last seasol
about 375, 900 skins were used alto
gether. A dollar a skin is a fair price
The best come from Siberia, and the de
mand for them is greater In Europe thai
here. Cninchills was favorlte at on
time; they bring about fifty cents skin
and Peru and Chill sent out about 100,
600 year. The largest business in IN,
one Syuth American animal is in tn
nutrla, three million being killed ever,
season, and still they come. They ar,
very common in the high lands abou
the La Plata, They all go to the ha
hat trade and sell by the pound from
twelve to twenty five cents,