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 For a green stamp, JIILTON BR.-I DLEY J’ 00., Springfield. lI!uss.. will send a 36-page Illustrated Catalogue and Priee- List of Industrial Ifome Amusements, Toys, and Novelties. Where priom are given. goods will be sent by mail on receipt of money or slurnps.

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MILTON BRADLEY 85 CO.’S

INSTRUCTIVE ENTERTAINMENTS FOR ALL AGES, SEASONS, AND CIRCUMSTANCES. For nearly a score of years the name Milton Bradley 8t Co. has been familiar in all households blessed with children, and their toys, games, and home amusements have always been not only unobjectionable, but positively elevating to the tastes and morals. Children may be educated as much in their play as in their studies, and any toy or amusement that trains them to do something, or to make something, or to know the beautiful from the ugly, gives them that which will be of as much value in life as any other education they can possibly receive. In this industrial or constructive feature lies the secret of the remarkable success of American toys in competition with the old German goods. When those were once broken the child had no power to reconstruct, and the break was sure to come at a very early stage in their use. With the combination toys of the present day the child may pull to pieces and put together at pleasure, constantly producing some form or combination new to him, and thus uncon sciously becoming a designer and inventor.

DISSECTED PICTURE PUZZLES, under variom names, have been universallydpopular with the little folks in all times, but they have all been merely cut-up pictures which could be reconstructe u originally primed, and that having been accomplished the fun was over for that time. A new toy called

MATCHED PICTURES is entirely ditferent in principle. The set now published is called Scenes in the Far Vest. Various arts of figures and landscapes are so ingeniously designed and printed, that with forty pieces several hundred digerent pictures can be made, re resenting Indian and frontier life in the West. In fact the combinations are almost unlimited. It must be seen to e understood. Price, thirty cents.

AN IMPROVED GAME OF AUTHORS. Many have heard the name /‘lulltars Improved, and some have even played with the cards without discovering or a preciating the best points. In addition to the superior quality and water- roofenamel finish of the cards, there are our s ecia cards. designated as “ Authors lmproved," “ Illustrations on teel," “ Morocco and Gilt Binding," and a “ lank Card." These cards, at the end of the game, serve to increase the value of the books with which they are placed, and the simple rules governi them doubles the interest of the game, giving anew zest to the most popular as well as one of the oldest of the mo ern social games. Price, thirty cents.

GEOGRAPHICAL OBJECT- LESSONS. Dissected maps have long been ve ' useful and popular amusements for the children, but there has been a demand for something more perfect. As eretofore made, dissected maps have been mounted on heavy paste oard, and then cut up at random into the most irregular pieces possible. But Milton Bradley & Co., at the suggestion and earnest solicitation of prominent educators, have brought out an elegant edition of the map of the United States, mounted on thin wood-board, and sawed accurately to the State boundary-lines, so that viewed from the back or front each piece is a valuable object-lesson, ll’Ill')I'C§SlIg the form of the State permanent! ' on the minds of the chil dren(.i nEach map is put up in an elegant, mou ded, wooden box, with beautiful lithograp ic label in colors. Price, one 0 ar.

WORDS AND SENTENCES. Sport and _study combined. The Game of Words, the Game of Sentences, the Block Game of Vordm-4lf¢¢ ames tn one: in fact, halfa dozen, as all the word and spelling games may be played. Two editions. Fine edition, vy enamelled tablets, in polished, hinged wooden box, fifty cents. A good cardboard tablet, in neat paper box, twenty-five cents. AW _____,__ A In addition to the above, attention is invited to the following line of attractive industrial toys:

RAILROAD MENAGERIE SHOW, SWISS COTTAGE, TEXAS RANCH. COMIC PARLOR HIPPODROME. AGRICULTURAL FAIR, FLYER RAILROAD TRAIN, THE EX CURSION STEAMBOAT COLUMBIA, AND NEW ENGLAND HOMESTEAD. All these goods are neatly, and some elegantly, finished, and they are acceptable in lines of trade where coarse toys are not ordinarily found.

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