| Show ANTLERS FOR ORNAMENTS I The Sort that are Sold and Their Prices The Fashionable I Boars Head I Where dia you get such big deer antlers ea those asked young i man of a black eyed curlybanged girl in a taxidermists store in William Wil-liam street He referred to a pile on the walk The girl dropped a cow blackbird which she was flaying and aid Those deer horns grow on elks in Montana They are not so very large if compared with others The young man was directed to an adjoining room A redmoutned polar bear with jaws wide apart greeted him on one fide as he opened the door and a leopard with arched back and knotted muscles seemed to snarl at him on the other Overhead hanging from a tangled mass of whitened horns and on every side of the room there was a throng of monkeys squirrels birds and animals of a hundred varieties all in attitudes which locked as if the old baboon in the corner with his finger to his lips had checked them in the midst of a wild carousal on the entry of a stranger Horne are just now very fashionable fashion-able Such things vary from year to year Last December we sold a hundred pairs of antlers said the girlHow How muoh did you get a pair V From w3 for a pair of small Virginia Vir-ginia deer antlers to 530 for a five foot spread of elks and 10 for a pair of magnifient moose shovel horns Did that include the stuffed headNo No Mounted head and all moose or elk horns brings S60 and 875 Those animals are dying out very rapidly U What is the very latent thing in the lice of wall ornament A wild boars head We have just received a barrel full of the skins When properly mounted they look delightfully vicous and sell for 830 Keeps tbe proprietor pretty busy to supply the trade dousnfc it aid the young man hearing work up stairs Yes He empoys IS hands besides be-sides me Andwhat can you do I can fly more than 400 lids l > a day for ue na hat ornament Are the wages high VJ HAs high as the siiill of the operator oper-ator The men who can show the muscles ot an animal and placa it in striking aid natural iusltions get from 350 to 860 a injntb New Y Lrk Sun |
