HORN.
Hoorn, Dom Tanduck sungu, MALAY.
Coyne, FR Rogg, Rus.
Sing, Gus., II1ND., KARN. Cuomo, . . Sr.
Como, IT , Pole Kombu, . . . TAIU.
Corms, LAT. I . . . . " TEL.
The horns of animals are largely utilized in the manufactures of the south and east of Asia ; and those of the bison, buffalo, elk, ibex, goat, ante lope, deer, oxen, and rhinoceros are largely im ported or re-exported. Horn of kinds is exten sively used in the manufacture of handles for knives, walking-sticks, spoons, combs, lanterns, snuff-boxes, powder-flasks, buttons, hairpins, etc. In China, buffalo horns are worked into lanterns, some of which are highly elegant. Chessboards, work and knitting boxes, tea-chests and tea caddies, inkstands, baskets, etc., which are lined with sandal-wood, are generally very neatly made at Vizagapatam. But they are far surpassed, both in cheapness and workmanship, by articles of a similar description, the produce of German industry, which are largely imported into England.
In China, lanterns made of horn shavings are largely used. Horn is softened by very intense heat, and then extended into thin lamina; of any shape. The best sort of rhinoceros horns conic
from Cochin-China, and sell at times for 300 dollars apiece ; an inferior sort is imported into China from India, of. which some probably are from Smithern Africa, which are sold for 30 dollars and upwards a-piece. The Chinese work the finest of these horns into elegant cups and other articles, but the most of the importation is used as a medicine. It also forms an article of com merce in the Chinese junks trading to Japan. The deer-horns and antlers exported from India are the dense antlers of the sambur (Cervus hippalephus), of the barking deer (Cervus munt jac.), of the axis (Cervus axis) , the nil-gai (Munnlig rum), mnl other species ; also the horns of the thar, gural, and yak. horns exported from India,— Year. Cwt. Rs. Year. Cwt. Rs.
1874-75, 53,175 7,62,399 1877-78, 88,783 19,42,009 1875-76, 55,755 8,06,652 1878-79, 67,828 13,78,667 1876-77, 71,890 12,80,051 1879-80, 57,201 12,68,321 Horn-bows are sometimes used in the arma ment of seine Chinese troops.