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Show CLCPHANTS ARE OYINQ OUT. Only Two Theuaand In Caylon, It tl Citlmatid. In tin new Ceylon Handbook aa! Directory an Interesting record li that of the export of elephant fron Iho liland during tho pail forty-one year In 1103 there wero o.ily olgkl of theau pachderm lent out of IM country, one to llrltlah India and ev en to (lermauy. Tho price paid for theio anlmill waa 7. 60(1 riif, giving a modett atcrngn of 815 rupee each. A roy ally of rupee 200 per head waa la posed In 1813, and tho number of elephant! ele-phant! exported, wtlch had fallen low biforo then, dwindled In the next few year to throe and even to ono. la 1S82 the rotally waa reduced to Hi, 100, In Iho hope that builnci might rotlve and ncotirngument bo git en to urplylng Iho now demand for Ceylon clcphanla In the Continental oicmg erica. Tho Itijaha' court In India had rrcvlnuily termed the chief mir-kct mir-kct for them. Tlo total number aotd In the tlmo trotted ol waa t.ili, or nn average of 60 per annum. Mr. Alfred Clirk, an expert. etl-mote etl-mote that there aro now only 2.000 elephant In Ceylon. Tho royalty In 1891 waa ntoln rnlncd to Mi. 200. Whether Iho effect of thli will ho to permit the animal to Increase In undue prorortlon to, their avalliblo haunt or that arorttmen ahcotlng elephant will counterbalance the do creaio In tho export remain to b aeen. l.alioro Tribune. |