. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across ys asked what kinds of furs were most in use. l^early everything that bears the name of fur, was the reply; butfashion rules here as everywhere else, and it often happens that a fur willbe in great demand at one time and quite neglected a few years is the most expensive fur, and a coat or cloak lined with it is worth 13 104 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSL\N EMPIRE. all the way from five hundred to five tliousand doUars, dependin
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across ys asked what kinds of furs were most in use. l^early everything that bears the name of fur, was the reply; butfashion rules here as everywhere else, and it often happens that a fur willbe in great demand at one time and quite neglected a few years is the most expensive fur, and a coat or cloak lined with it is worth 13 104 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSL\N EMPIRE. all the way from five hundred to five tliousand doUars, depending uponthe excellence of the skins. Another fur, that of the black fox, is stillmore costlj; but as it is worn only by the Imperial family and the high-est nobility, it does not come into our category. Coats lined with astrachan (the soft wool of very young lambs) arefashionable, and bring high prices. 1 have known of coats of this kindselling for six or eight hundred dollars each, 1 took to America a cap ofastrachan wool; it cost me about three dollars, and with my inexperiencedeve I could not distinguish it from one that sold for ten times as FDR-BEARING SKALS. My Russian friends could readily detect the difference; but as I was buy-ing the cap for American and not for Russian use, I was (piite contentwith my purcliase, Why is this fur or wool called astrachan V one of the youths asked. It comes here from Astrachan, at the mouth of the Volga, said theDoctor. Its preparation is one of the industries of Central Asia, forwhich Astrachan is the great market. This fur is black, and remarkablysoft and silky. The lamb is killed immediately after he sees the light,and the younger he is at the time of his death the finer and more valuableis the skin, Persia supplies large quantities of this fur, and it varies fromblack to o;rav or white. FASHIONABLE FURS IN RUSSIA. 195 jr
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