Show IVORY an english journal says cays few of our lady readers adera re while widle tiley aliey peep BO so gly over the tips of meir weir ivory falls fans or ply their fingers so nimbly und and gracefully grace graci fully fally oer the tiie white keys of the piano are wont to cast 8 I 1 a thought toward the manner in which ilis this n material is procured the quantities titles of it w lich ilch are annually used and the ilia number of noble animals which ii are yearly slain for the purpose of supplying the till tili constantly increasing demand amand mr air dalton a celebrated manufacturer estimates that the annual consumption of ivory in the town of sheffield alone is about ISO IBO tons equal in value to and requiring the labor ot of person to work ork it up for trade the number cumber of tusks to make nake up this amount of ivory is and according to this the num nuro berof elephants killed every year fr for the supply ly of the sheffield market in but supposing some tusks to be cast and some to have hare died di e d a natural death it may fairly be esti CEU mated that are killed for the purpose |