Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-02
Volume mo. 29.
TOYS FOR THE LITTLE ONES.
Some OF the Novelties Displayed for
Christmas in the Stores.


Christmas toys and novelties for the
4. little ones are displayed conspicuously
in all the shops. The improvements
since last year have been many, but lit
! eral new novelties invented have
been very few. Mechanical toys seem
to lead, and every child that can speak
wants toy of some kind that either
moves or squeaks.
A large firm on Broadway, who have
an immense toy factory at Bridgeport.
Ct, and who buy up all the patents of
new-fangled mechanical toys, have 4
few ingenious novelties invented this
season.
How are toys selling this season."
asked a reporter of the head of the
firm.
''Oh, much better than I expected.
The run on mechanical TOYS is some
thing wonderful. The baby doll that
walks and speaks. says mamma and pa
pa at each mechanical theatrical stride
60 like hot cakes. They have simply
been improved upon very much, but
not recently invented.
The mechanical smoking man is
late patent. Ii is a comical figure of a
man eleven inches high, seated on
black walnut box and small keg at
his elbow, with the historical long pipe
and mug of beer in his hand. Place
cigarette in his pipe, and, when wound
up and the cigarette lighted. the figure
will draw and puff the smoke in a per-
fectly natural manner. The motions
of the head and arm, and the action
while smoking. are perfect. These sell
rapidly to the small boys. ambitions to
learn how to smoke and use tobacco.
''Then there is the walk around
two figures that 90 cav .rting around
something on the style of a go-as-you-
please walking-match. This is new
and salcabe.
But one of our latest hits is the
stump orator. 1t is negro with a car
pet bag in one hand and an umbrella in
the other He maEes motions. pounds
the desk in front Of him with the UNI
brella. and assumes positions OF appeal,
entreaty, tierceness and humor such as
the orators of the da do when speak
ing. We paid good ,,eal to the in
Ventor and do not regret it. The dog
cart with the dude in it drivinga pranc-
ing horse will be put in the show-win-
dow for the first time this season. BY
winding it up, away it goes until it runs
down. The bear that walks about snap
ping his jaws cost lot of time aid
money to perfect.
''Ah! here is something continued,
the toy man, which fires the young
American heart and sells splendidly.
The idea is not new but the nodus op-
erandi is the work of genius. 1t is
our Home Guards. You see here are
thirty-eight wood soldiers, lithograph-
ed in bright colors A platform ca
which tlias are IS supplied with wood
Femafeabia INC a 5fsss ss--'s r.
into an endless Aiefy OF positions,
i and when SO formed can be made to
march and .counter-march with the ut
most precision, in single or double file,
by companies. columns, battalions or
hollow squares.
The Donnybrook Fair toy is a re-
cent invention. 1t is called Shoot the
hat A native of the Emerald Isle sits
under bali suspended by an elastic
cord. You take the ball and try to
knock his hat off without knocking
over the figure. 1t is as difficult to do
as winning hats on election bets, and
ought to know, for | lost only seven"
~. T. Nail and Express.