The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14

battery and g~alvanic apparatus. This IS
entirely new. and is one of the best cleo
trical tutors possible. 1t is perfectly harm
less. and q bright boy will speedily d to
it some of the new three-candle power
lamps. and run a miniature electric light
plant. The price is 80.
For many years bricks OF plain wood,
liable to warp and unsatisfactory TO build,
with, have been the only kind of toy
bricks TO be obtained at q reasonable price.
This wear the makers of h pretty vari-
colored stone bricks, which were sold out
so rapidly at high figures last year, have
lowered their prices down TO the wood
level, and the stone bricks can now be
bought from % cents a box to $25. They
make perfect representations Of buildings,
and may be used TO teach the children 10
first build a design and then sketch il.
Nearly all the leading toys appear to have
a hidden and attractive educational tend
ency.
Agame that attracts a good deal of at
tention is a fort, built on a generous scale
and large enough to occupy a fair-sized
table. 1t has towers, keep, courtyard,
drawbridge, ETC., and is garrisoned with
troops, horse and foot, and defended with
cannon. In playing the game two sides
are chosen, and a number of soldiers are
given to the attacking force, with one or
more annon These shoot peas, and
shoot very straight, SO that great fun is
had by shooting down n another's men
to see on which side victory Is to lodge. In
a prominent place each side displays a
flag on a staff, and if that is shot down it
ends the game at once. The price is $12
without soldiers, or SIS with soldiers. This
is only one of many military toys and
games. Stanley in Africa" is a box con-
tanning upward of a hundred leaden hg-
ures, about equally divided between blacks
I'D x-ls@~a Tl-.0 - oxtz
and huts, and are to be played with in any
style which may suggest itself to the fertile
fancy OF a modern boy. Another set is
called Buffalo Bill and the Wild West"
This is a set of cowboys and Indians. with
tents and tepees. The prices Of these
games range from So up to $13, according
TO the number of pieces included in the
outDt. In line with these is what is called
a marine outnt, consisting of ships and
ground, so that a seanght is in order as
well as a land combat. All these games
are played by firing shots from the spring
cannon loaded with peas.
Musical toys are apparently in high
favor with the present generation, if one is
TO judge from the multitude of specimens.
One of the best of these is a piano at which
a large white squirrel is sitting, playing an
accompaniment, while another white fell
low stands up and sings the song. The
actions are wonderfully fifelike. Another
good toy in this line is a dog, life size.
Wind him up and he walks across the
room, ways his head and barks again and
again. The dogs price is $40.
A good present for a boy is a gymnasium
outl.t; one that he can put up in his own
room, and thus exercise his muscles every
morning and straighten his back. The
price is $40.
Almost everyone has PLAYED sgrace
hoops" This year a new game on the old
lines is introduced from France. The
hoops are the same, but instead of being
thrown and caught with two sticks, there
is provided a neat spring device, which in
sures the hoop nying straight, thereby i'm
proving the game, and, at the same time,
saving the bric-a-brac and ornaments. The
pyramid ball target is another attractive
new game. 1t consists of a : stand about
three feet in height, on the nat top of
which are arranged, in a triangular or pyr-
amidal form, ten upright discs bearing
numbers of various denominations. At
these a ball is lightly tossed, and if hit,