The New York herald., 1873-12-20

cIemency OF tne weather ana apparently quito
conscious that they need good stock OF clothes In
order TO become respectable.
SOME SCIENTIFIC NOVELTIES,
which deserve to hold high level In the toy king
Hartz No. $50 Broadway. Here, as in similar
establishment OF great merit previously meu-
TONED, toys and magical implements are TO be OBJ
tanned at prices ranging from cents TO 200 800
times that amount. rhe portable electric wand iS
an American patent. ana Is especially adapted Tor
and illustrates the heating power OF electricity.
The experiments it enables the possessor TO per-
form are known as the electrical head OF hair cleo
trical repulsion, or the suspended pith balls the
electric canvas and the alarm bell. Another
charming invention IS the cnarimorphoscope,
an Improvement on the kaleidoscope. BY 1t
feathers, laces. silk noss and coiored paper are
made TO form beautiful designs. fhe me-
tabIoscope Illustrates the persistency OF vision
and some OF the more delicate phenomena OF light
and color Some balloons OF goldbeaters' skin
OF the articles for sale here are the invention Of
NJ. Hartz himself The gentleman Is known a.
very dexterous conjurer. But perhaps the time
Is coming when every boy viii prefer being his own
eonlurer, and If 50 we know or no establishments
! the Magical Repository at No. $50 Broadway, and
the Magical Bazaar at No. 1881 Broadway. Both
| Quoted with skill ana energy, and in both the new
est magcal inventions OF the day are always to be
TOY EMPoRIuMs IN GENERAL.
we 90 not profess In tins article TO describe
elaDorately every TIN soldier and Noah's ark.
which IL mas been our felicity to encounter. The
more salient freaks and caprices are those which,
In theme ike the present, will always command
attention: At strasDurger, Piciaer Co.'s, No s94
ing stock OF toys is to be found. Here,
mentioned, the dolls remain principal feature.
The walking doies not to be obtained here for
as last season. it may be dificult to understand
how doll that can walk can lose ground more
rapidly than one that can't, bnt such Is the fact.
Bni In spite Of being deprived OF their feet the
dolls cannot be said not to have made some head
way, Tor Ton the principle perhaps that two heads
doll which be decapitated at touch and sup
Piled with fresh face and brain instantaneOusly.
frequently come across rhree-neaded doll-that
is to say doll whose spiral structure admits OF
the original head being entirely removed from the
shoulders without injury to the integrity OF the rest
OF the frame and two Others successively substi-
tuted. The advantage OF being this kind OF o
DOLL therefore, Is the impossbtlity OF your being
out OF your head, Or rather, heads for you don't
like one you can get another. and between three
there is chance or getting suited Sometimes one
of these complementary heads is old, and then we
have the realization Of the anachronism OF young
heads on young shoulders-a mechanical satire or
what occasionally happens among nesh and blood
Then we admit there Is some anatomical contra
diction between the structure OF the head ana tnat
must easily give way before the satisfaction child
must feel at being able to depict the grief oi
iayorlte doll BY making 1t seem to have grown old
II we visit AlthoI, Bergmann Co.'s, Nos. 80. 50:
81 and s6 Park place; Meares sixth avenue and
section OF Grand and Allen streets johnson, Bros.
Co.'s. Nos. "a and SO Union square; SchwarZ's,
No. 765 Broadway, and Lord Iaylor's, at the in
tersection OF Broadway and Twentieth street, we
shall find an immense assortment OF toys and
fancy artices-so immense that the recapitulation
OF them would be wilder from It's very proiuseness
and we might mention in this connection that
Dick Fitzgerald, No. Is Ann street, have brought
out very suitable book, emitted What Shall We
Do To-Nightf' and having reference to social
amusements for evening parties. To the subject
more that is beautiful and interesting to be seen
at other places. TO be hereafter specified.