Show I Various Kinds of Ivor Enormous Amount Is Exported from Africa Yearly for Use In Europe Largo Deposits of Mammoth Tusks Ivory Is strictly speaking obtained only from the tusks of the elephant the finest of which comes from the coast of Africa This hard heavy fine grained green or guinea ivory is esteemed es-teemed for Its transparency and because be-cause Its light yellow or pale blood tint unlike the whiteness of other kinds which becomes yellow bleaches with age The different species of African elephant supply almost all the Ivory used In Europe Its quantity is enormous The British Importation 1900 was 1175000 pounds which represent rep-resent 60000 tusks Ono London firm sells 10000 tusks early in billiard balls Under so heavy a drain the supply sup-ply must fall but to fall back upon arc ranmrkahlo deposits of mammoth tusks which have accumulated on tho rivers discharging into the Arctic ocean Since man began to express himself him-self In art he has made use of ivory Here however the term has a wider application It covers the teeth of the hippopotamus the long tusks of the walrus and even the single tooth or the narwhale Under tho description of Ivories come carving In polished stagshorn and In bone T Thl 1 representation markablc of prehistoric of a head 1orlea hi r of an ibex carved In relZ ahou s reindeer El which Is done with POTu Fa hand tats h-and observation though att the cavedweller of Dordogne workq that allsts are able to assign It ni ta to of the Alps rather linn that the I ryrenees ot t pa Billiard balls ofd are turned frog most perfect elephant tusks cat h essarlly the largest for the tots best most costly are made I from i Da tt scarcely larger than 1 the balls the b r selves In diameter and kno known r3F U b teeth Some of the balls turned rem 111 even these are better than 1 n They aro of higher grade the othl U they are to the termination ot sea t5r nerve which runs through the tu ° f and the smaller this Is I as may tat observed In the black speck to Arc seen on a ball the better the oun ikD Fossil or blue ivory Is sonetl found In commerce and Is used oc sionally In the manufacture of J Wt It is evidently from the tusks or at deluvlan mammoths burled la I earth for thousands of years dart I which time they have become tlo penetrated with metallic salts rim have given them a peculiar blue col Co allowing them to be used as t J quolses v |