JELLY FROM IVORY.
The last sale of ivory at Liverpool was the largest which lias taken place for a long time. Manufacturers who were present tell us that the prices realised showed an advance of from 20s to 80s per cwt. All the lots were sold. There wore buyers not only from the English towns, but from America and the Continent. Ivory is very largely used in the Sheffield trade, more especially for lmfting cutlery of all kinds. The demand for billiard and bagatelle balls, as well as for piano keys, has increased of late years. One leading cutlery house made a calculation some time ago, suggested by a question put by a visitor. They estimated that to supply themselves with the ivory they needed for the handles of their cutlery, etc., they needed 1280 elephants every year, and that even on the basis that each tusk weighed 23Jlbs. In a magazine the question was recently put, " What be comes of the ivory waste ?" There is no ivory Avaste. In the cutting of the ivory the powder which comes away is sold for making jelly. It has long been used abroad, _ and is now getting pretty well known in this country. It is sold at 4d per lb, made up into parcels, and is re garded as an excellent material for making jelly, particularly in the country, where calves' feet are not always procurable when required, — English Paper.
