The Penn's Grove record., 1883-11-10


sells readily Tor $40 and is used in trim
ming Muffs, etc. Red fox brings only
about 81 a skin, depending upon the
demand.
Yes, there Is q demand for odd furs.
Certain ultra~fashionables want to make
q splurge and start a fashion that spreads
ike wlldtire and we are utterly unable
to meet the demand. A few years AGO
a New York fashionable woman came
out with q set Of leopard skin furs and
the prices went up Immediately, so that
there Is a fair demand for them. Furs
are also made OF tiger skin and about
SIX nundred are used annually by the
trade-all that can be got. They came
from Bengal and China and bring ac-
cordlng to the markings, 100 to $3.50
per skin that may be fourteen and a half
feet In length, A white tiger skin is
won th about $500. They rarely reach
this country. The rage for tiger claws
became 80 great q year or SO ago that
the market was completely exhausted.
| know several gentlemen of sporting
tastes, who wear winter vests made OF
SKINS, who claim to have killed the
ti8ers. az skins are equally in de-
mand, and a number of the wildcats,
Our common wildcat presents the trade
with over 1000 skins yearly, valued at
from 80 cents to 81.
"Ih Thomas cat? Well, I should
say so. 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 ], 200, 900 house cats were
used by the fur trade. Black, white.
Maltese and t~ortoise-sheli 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 so
cents to 81. 40. They come from Ohio
and New York principally and, as in
p~ursultof the tiger and lion, the bravest
men are -required.
"There is q fair demand for monkey
skins and AZ, 1000 are used annually by
furriers, principally the Diana, black |
and Abyssinian monkeys. They are
used In trimmings. Yes. you don't
know what fur you wear sometimes,
The same garment may be trimmed
with equal parts of monkey, skunk and
cat and sold to the cheap buyer as
Hoang Ho seal. The skin of the hay
lynx is much used for muffs and boas
The skin of the dog is saleable, so is
that OF rats, mice, the opossum, kanga-
roo ornithorynchus. But hair is largely
used in felting and in plating ropes,
Immense quantities of coon hair is sent
to Germany and made into hats. Ok
and calf hair is used in the imitation of
WOODEN goods and q great many skins
are valued merely to initiate other ar.
ticles with, thus the white backed, COM
non and striped skunks dyed are made
into muffs and boas and sold generally
under the name of Alaska sable.
Bearded sealsk1n is used to initiate leop-
ard skins Tartar sable is dyed and made
into mutfs and sold as Russian sable;
the beach marten is also made to imi-
tate sable and fox skins to initiate
lynx.
SIN old times ermine was the fashion
able fur, but there is not SO much de-
mand for it now, though last season
about 375, 600 skins were used alto
gether. A dollar a skin is a fair price.
The best come from Siberia. and the de-
mand Tor them is greater in Europe than
here. Cninchilla was u favorIte at one
tune; they bring about fifty cents a skin
n Peru aud Chill sent out about l20.-
600 a year. The largest bnome IS in any
one s nth American animal is in the
nutria, three mill n being killed every
season. and still they come. They are
very common In the high lands about
the La Plata, Tney ali go 10 the hat
hat trade and sell by the pOuud IRON 1
twelve to twenty five cents.