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Show Anew industry is being rapidly developed de-veloped in France, and if you mean to be in the fashion you had better take note of it at once. Some years ago it was the gentle crocodile which was selected se-lected as the fittest animal for providing you with new purses, Jbags, cigarette cases, boots, shoes and all the rest of leathery knickknacks. Now it is the elephant ele-phant that has to give his hide for the same purpose. At Paris even now you can buy a card or cigar case of crocodile hide which has been glorified by a six months' sojourn in a bath of oak bark in the tanner's yard. The price' of the little toy is from 15 to 20 guineas, and if you are ambitious ambi-tious enough to wish to purchase a small crocodile valise "and no one there to hinder" you may do so for the sum of from 15 to 100. Th tanned elephant skin is also reported to make carpets of unrivaled strength and "of a grand originality." orig-inality." Paris Letter. |