A MUSICAL DECANTER.

A Novelty in the Cut Glass Line --- Musical Plates Another New Thing.

A cut glass decanter with a musical box concealed in the bottom is the latest novelty in the line of fancy articles with musical attachments. The decanters are tinted in a variety of delicate colors, which serve to conceal the false bottom, under which the mechanism is placed. Clear glass bottles are also made, and when partly filled with wine or a colored liquid conceal the works still more effectually. The musical box is wound by means of a button under the bottom, and plays only when the decanter is placed on the table.

Musical plates are made in a similar manner, but the mechanism in them does not play when the plate is on the table, but when it is lifted to be passed around a concealed spring underneath starts and stops the works. The plates and decanters cost $7.50 each.

The most elegant fancy article that emits musical sound is a gold snuff-box. It is elegantly wrought, and is marvelous in its working. Pressure upon a small disc causes a circular lid about the size of a silver dollar to fly open, and a little bird pops into view. The feathered songster warbles in exact imitation of a canary, dancing about and moving its head and bill the while, and as it utters the last note it disappears from view, and the lid closes with a snap. On the other side of the box a larger lid opens into a receptacle for snuff. These trifles cost from $100 upwards, according to the amount of ornametal work and jewelling that is done upon them. Like all of the most expensive musical boxes, they are made in Switzerland.