Show ripe made hade of a seals tusk tosh A pipe made out of a seals tusk was seen at the weare office recently tho the stem etem is nearly a foot fool long and is is quaintly illustrated with representations off of life under tho the arctic circle tho the artist was an indian and the little sketches in india ink show up very well against the ivory background there is a reindeer about to fall under tho the arrow of an archer there is a sledge drawn by dogs fir trees tepees a fishing scene where tho the captives are being brought to shore in a net aro are all true to life another ornament of tho the same character is a pair of walrus tusks with delineations of other alaskan scenes with the fox and the white polar bear in in evidence also an eskimo leveling a gun at tho the latter it is said that to add to the terrors of overland travel in the long winter months the larger wild animals aro are often driven by hunger to attack the trails men and packs of ferocious wolves will besiege a camp for days attacking the horses and reindeer as well as tho the dogs more than one caravan has been done to death in this manner anner ni as tho the whitened bones strewn along tho the tracks show chicago inter ocean |