The Russellville Democrat., 1881-12-22
A CHAPTER ON NEW TOYS.
All Possible "Go" Put Into This Years Inve ention-why Americans Are Getting Ahead of European Makers-NoveI
 Go-Carts = Bridge Building
 Traps for Hoarded Pennies.
New York Sun

CT worked so hard as they have this year to furnish children with holiday play ' things on which to wreak their savage little wills.
 Many new games aud toys have been invented this year, and nearly all are constructed without regard to expense. Inventors have learned that they can sell any toy, however expensive, if 1t has merit and will not tumble to pieces week after the fond parent Jugs it home. As to wear and tear, however, a manufacturer said to the Sun reporter that more pains are taken now than were formerly taken to make durable toys. It is argued that when parents find hob by-horses' heads and legs dropping off, and go carts breaking an axle immediate " after they are bought, they become dlsgusted and buy no toys at all. On tn 3 pcontrary, if toys are well made more are bought, for child's fancy enlarges fast CT than it's body.
 Each of the large manufacturers of toys has managed in the summer or fall past to secure patent on some toy, or 0p some modification of toy, and now is the time shen they exhibit the new plaything and assure their customers that it IS the Yery thing children are crying for.
 At 20 Park place. in window, is a structure that resembles working mod el of the Brooklyn bridge, and is an i'm. posing affair. The puzzle is to take it from the small box in which it is packed and arrange the towers, approaches, kables, roadway and suspenders. Any ~boy would know that the lamps belong on the approaches and the two flags on the top of the towers. The bridge, xrh oa4 ,s,4 s,xn lax 4 high and inches wide, and it is pac sed in box l5 inches long. It costs only $1. The same firm sells new two-story doll house for the same price. Not a nail or sore is used in the building of the house. The houses were patented in July last. Toy pistols with cartridges were sold here, but the firm say they in- tend to deal in them no more. The de- ,.mand by retailers for these weapons of Edestruction is much less than it has wbeen.
 Probably the oldest dealer in the do- mestic toy trade is Mir. Dare, at AZ Cort- land street. He began business at his present stand in 1858, and now has branched out into the stores on his left and right hand. Mir. Dare has new toy this year, which he calls the Tally. ho Sulky, patented. It is four wheeled vehicle, with a sulky seat, and fiery wooden horse prances in front. The motion is produced by pushing and pull ing on the reins, which are an iron rod {. attached 10 the neck of the charger. E Pushing and pulling on the horses head turns crank beneath the driver, and the healthy muscular strain produced by Vthe exercise is like that which man feels after driving livery horse all day. The price is from $S to $16.
 You would not dream that bitter lawsuit would be waged for years over so small thing as shelffor playthings," said Mir. Dare yesterday, but since 1874 the lawers have been trying to decide to wtora belongs the right to make shelf to lift up in baby carriage, so that the taby can be put ia the carriages and the shelf shut down in it's iap, to bod the child's toys ana to keep it from crawling out on the tongue of the cart. A manu- facturer claimed she exclusive right to make the lifting shelf, and brought suit against all the other manufacturers. On aSthe 9th inst, however, l. was decided ( that he had not just claim, as the shelf had been made before he took out 8 patent
 A new big toy in this store is wooden elephant nearly two feet long and foot and half high, richly caparisoned and mounted on wheels. That" said MT. Dare, ''is a good text for discourse on imported and domestic toys. We Ameri cans send to England, France and Ger many more toys than we get from abroad. The reason of this revolution is this We make toys that have something about them which boy can make go whereas foreigners make playthings with more tinssl and flash about them. Of course the toys which have the go in sYthem must be strong enough to be Skicked, rode and hsmmered, and ouS large wooden toys fill the bill. There is more bulk in our playthings than in the foreign goods, and, on the other hand, the improved toys have more handiwork on them, because labor is cheaper on the other side than with us. We send, too hundreds of boys velocipedes to Australia"
 street, said on this subject that he was airaing to cut down the German toy trade, and was not only doing this in one or two lines, but was selling in Germany. The best things in this line, NJ. Shelton said, where horse and dumping cart, new this year; an emigrant wagon, or prairie schooner, twenty-four inches long, with "Go West" in black letters or the canvas, and oxen cut out of slab an inch thick; and express wagons nearly three feet long-all practicable" toys. The manufactor in Connecticut from which thsse are turned out is run ming day and night
 Banks with comical attachments, to induce children to save their pennies, appear in new forms this year. Put a coin into the cracked nut a rabbit is chewing while he stands on his hind legs, and then take hold of the animals stumpy tail, and he gulps do Rn the coin and Hops his ears in gratitude. A penny Is placed on the nose of an iron bulldog; pull his tail, and he throws up the coin k opens his mouth, and swallows the money. An owl sits by branch of a tree; the coin is put on the branch, a spring in the owls neck is touched, the owl tuns his head, sees the coin, swal- lows it, snd looks wise. A coin is put between the donkeyss heels, whereupon he kicks it over his head into the door, and the dog comes out and grabs the donkey's nose.
 The old-fashioned iron bsx, with
 Savings Bank" across the front is no longer called for. Its place is taken by miniature hat of iron, which the child takes by the rim and passes around among his aequaintances.
 Sliced animals" were a new thing in toys year ago. Each slice had piece . or picture of an animal on it. and, at