AMERICAN TOY TRADE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 186, 6 August 1879, Page 4

AMERICAN TOY TRADE.

American steals toys, each as ministore steamboats that run in water, enffines and boilere, and locomotives with «tt«H trains of care, a: c in much <Iptnand by European buyers. The Wooden toys are generally of a practical sort. They excel the European products in cheapnefee, style, and finish. Hobby-horees, velocipedes, miniature labs, pails, wringer*, and clotheshorses are among these, Vany of these are made in the West, and scot East to be finished. Indiana is fhe largest producer of the bleck walnut toy furniture for export. Crcquet implements, which formerly CBme from England, now form en important item of export, one firm recently sending two thoueand sets to that c< untry. The cot* of a set here is from Idol 50c «p» w^iile the lowest price charged for •n. English set was 15dols. Many iron toys, as savings banks, &c, are also Imported. The higher class of toye ■re made in New York and New England, but principally in the latter States, where there are about a hundred manufactories. In former years a large proportion of the toys used in this country como from Europe. Now the trade is the other way, and the trade is baying largely from; America, not only the peculiarly American inventions, but also the toys which formerly were made abroad. The export trade in toys, which amounted last year to over 1,000,000 dole, b°gan five or six years ago. Then, E. G. Williams, the agent of a large exporting firm, stiys, a number of bankers lent some American-made toys to Cuba •nd South America. The trade then extended to London, and thence to Hamburg and Paris. Now nearly every foreign steamer carries large quantities, The principal articles of export are the mechanical or clockwork ■nd the steam toys ; but there are also large shipments of tin and wooJeo toys, most of which class were formerly imported from England or Germany. Wood is much cheaper in America than in Europe, and machines work faster than band. The latter also applies to tbe increaaad sale of mechanical toys. Very few are now imported, and only the finer French and Austrian works for show pieces in the windows. American ingenuity has also multiplied the varieties of mechanical toy?, and the American manufacturers of tbe dock mechanism have met all overtures for the purchase of the detached works by European dealers by demanding prices which are practically prohibitory.

Parts of Dakota, lowa, and Minnesota were visited by tornadoes on the 3rd July, and tbe devastation was terrible Hailßtones as big as bens' eggs fell. A great many persons were killed. j In a sermon at Baltimore recently on the Lord's Prayer, Mr Moody touched incidentally upon the hard times. | "We hear," ' he said, " a great deal of I talk about hard times ; but what has caused them ? Sin. Look at the money that is spent in this great country on whisky alone. We don't say to" God ' Give us this day our daily whisky,' do we ? I tell you there are mints of money spent on whisky that ought to feed children's mouths with bread. The fact of the case is, this nation has been too prosperous. The Jews, tbe i chosen people of God, never could sJand prosperity. As soon as they got rict they went to worshipping idols, and whenever they got fat they began to kick against God. I fear American mcrals suffer in proportion as the nation prospers." The failing with persons who Bay the Lord's Prayer is, Mr Moody thinks, that they really do not mean what they say, "If the Lord's Prayer was meant earnestly and made the rule of life, we would have none of those great standing armies that are kept menacing one another in the Old World yonder." How can a man say " Abba Father," if he is not a child of God ? and how can tbe unregenerated man say "Hallowed be Thy name?" "Reverence thyself" is tbe motto of the world. The natural man works for himself as a centre. All acts, all enterprises, all energies, and all ambitions " have in view the great I am." Mr Moody does not know but saying tbe Lord's Prayer without feeling and meaning it "is aa bad as swearing itself." b Jonah in the whale's belly was safer than those who, being swallowed up of sickness and disease, yet neglect to take the only remedies that can save them. It is an indisputable fact that " Ghollah's Great Indian Corks " are tbe surest restorers to health of any medicines ever yet discovered. Persons who had been ill with Rheumatics and Gout for over 20 years have been cured by these meritorious medicines. Sold by all Chemists — see testimonials.