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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



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CENTRE HALL, 



No. 12 EAST KING ST., 



Is now ready to accommodate the Public 

 in the way of 



REAOY-MAEE CLOTIINi;, 



-FOR- 



MEN, YOUTHS & BOYS. 



Our stock is the largest in the 

 City of Lancaster. We manufac- 

 ture all our Clothing; we have 

 them sponged, made up well, and 

 use good irimmings. Our new 

 Centre Hall is packed with goods 

 from top to bottom. We are pre- 

 pared to show to the public the 

 largest, and one of the choicest, 

 assortments of Piece Goods, for 

 Spring, ever exhibited outside of 

 Philadelphia, of every grade and 

 shade, of both Foreign and Do- 

 mestic mauufacture, all of which 

 we are prepared to make up in 

 the best manner, at the shortest 

 notice, and at the most reasonable 

 prices. We are also prepared to 

 make up to order all kinds of 

 Clothing for Children, and we 

 keep them i-eady made. If you 

 want to purchase goods by the 

 yard, you can save money at 

 CENTRE HALL, as we buy 

 largely, and have an advantage in 

 our large purchases. 



We keep a full line of Gentle- 

 men's Furnishing Goods. We 

 have a large lot of accumulated 

 Stock of Keady-Made Clothing, 

 Odd Lots, which will be sold 

 without regard to cost. It will 

 pay purchasers wishing Clothing 

 to call at Centre Hall and be suit- 

 ed, and save money, and you will 

 say the half has not been told you. 

 There are always ready hands 

 waiting to show you through the 

 immense stock. 



Waiting your inspection, we feel 

 grateful to a generous public for 

 the patronage heretofore extended 

 to us, and hope by fair dealing to 

 merit a continuance of the same. 



No. 12 EAST KING ST., 



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LANCASTER, PA. 



Passing them in. 



A well known drummer for a Boston dry goods 

 house, who chanced, last summer, to be in a Maine 

 town where the circus was to show that night, made 

 a bet that he could pass every one of a party of thirty, 

 who had come over from a neighboring town into the 

 "show," without paying a cent. The wager being 

 accepted, the party were marshaled, and proceeded 

 to the tent, where the doorkeeper was busily engaged 

 taking tickets from all who passed through the aper- 

 ture in the canvas. Coming up with his crowd, the 

 drummer rushed up to the ticket taker with his hands 

 full of cards, and said : 



" Just count these men as they pass in, ending with 

 the man in the straw hat." 



" Certainly, sir," and the cerberus went to work. 

 " Five, ten, fourteen, eighteen," &c., as they passed 

 in and mingled with the crowd, till the straw hat was 

 reached, when he shouted "thirty-one," and turned 

 round for the tickets. But the polite individual who 

 had bade him enumerate had vanished, while the 

 party who was crowned with the straw hat, the only 

 one who was stopped before he had mingled with and 

 melted into the indistinguishable mass of the crowd 

 inside, proved to be an innocent countryman, who 

 had legitimately procured his admission paste-board. 

 The ticket taker couldn't leave his post, for the in- 

 gress by regular spectators was pressing, so he made 

 the beet of it, and said nothing. He had learned a 

 lesson, however, that made him take tickets first and 

 count afterward, for the future. 



A Yorkshire butcher was going to York with his 

 son, a boy of eighteen. He took a ticket for himself 

 and a-half one for the boy. When the train drew near 

 to York the ticket collector came round, and ex- 

 claimed at this half ticket, " Where's the child ?" 



" Here," said the butcher, pointing to the tall, 

 awkward youth. 



" What do you mean?" asked the indignant ticket 

 collector. " He ain't a child; he's a young man !" 



" Ah ! so he is, now," answered the butcher, " but 

 that's thy fault, not mine. I know when we got in 

 at Wakefield he were nobbut a bairn; buttha'st been 

 goin' so confounded slow that he's growed sin' we 

 started !" 



An Englishman dining in a Chinese village was 

 greatly enjoying a savory dish, and would have ex- 

 pressed his pleasure to the waiter, who, however, un- 

 derstood nothing of English, nor could our friend 

 utter a word of Chinese. The smacking of lips indi- 

 cated satisfaction ; and then came the question, 

 ingeniously put. Pointing at the portion of meat in 

 the dish, and which he supposed to be duck, the 

 Englishman, with an inquiring look, said, "Quack, 

 quack, quack?" The waiter, gravely shaking his 

 head, as much as to say "No," replied, "Bow, wow, 

 wow ! " . . 



A PENUBious FELLOW,having buried his wife,waited 

 upon the grave-digger, who had performed the 

 necessary duties, to pay him his fees. Being of a 

 niggardl}' disposition, he endeavored to get the knight 

 of the spade to abate his charges. The patience of 

 the latter becoming exhausted, he grasped his shovel 

 impulsively, and, with an angry look, exclaimed, 

 " Doon wi' another shilliu', or — up she comes 1 " 

 The threat had the desired etfeet. 



"Why, you rascal," said Dr. Radcliffe, the great 

 physician, to a pavior who dunned him, "do you pre- 

 tend to be paid for such a piece of work ? Why, you 

 have spoiled my pavement, and then covered it over 

 witlv><!arth to hide your bad work." " Doctor," said 

 the pavior, " mine is not^the only bad work the earth 

 hides." "You dog, you," said Dr. Radclitt'e, "you 

 are a wit : you must be poor. Come in and you shall 

 be paid." 



A DEAF-AND-DUMB mendicant was suddenly startled 

 by the rude shouts of some boys while wallcing down 

 a city street, and in turning slipped on a banana skiu 

 and fell. He gave the lads a severe lecture, much to 

 the enjoyment of the blind beggar at the corner, who 

 saw the whole occurrence through his green glasses, 

 and was much amused thereat. 



".Jennie" said a venerable Camcronian to his 

 daugliler, who was asking his consent to accompany 

 her urgent and favored suitor to the altar — " Jennie, 

 it's a very solemn thing to get married." "I know 

 it, father," replied the sensible damsel ; "but it's a 

 great deal solemner not to." 



ArniLosopHER borrowed adictionary to read, and 

 returned it after he got through, with the remark 

 that "it was werry nice reading, but it somehow 

 changed the subject werry often." It was his sister 

 who thought the first ice-cream she tasted was " a 

 leetle touched with the frost." > 



The Lanoater Farmer : This agricultural news- 

 paper is constantly securing increased popularity, and 

 is well filled with instructive and useful reading mat- 

 ter. Published by Pearsol & Geist, Lancaster, Pa.— 

 York (/"a.) Telegram. 



JOHN M. CO^AAELL, 



Copeyaicer ani Seal Estate Apt, 



OFFICK IN LAW BUlLltiSQ, 



N. W. COR. DUKE AND GRANT STS., 



LANCASTER, PA. 



Real EHate of all deacription bought, eold and ex- 

 changed on commission. 



L^ntns Negotiated. Mortgages bought and sold. 



fropt'rtiea taken in charge, and rents, interest, etc., 

 coUected. 



I*articiilar attention given to matters appertaining to 

 Real Estate Law, and Conveyancing. 



Drfdst Mortgagea, Briefs, Wilts and all other legal 

 inetruments correctly drawn and handsomely and neatly 

 engrossed. 



Maps of Properties, Lots, Farms, &c., and Draughting in 

 general accurately and handsomely executed. [7-l-12m 



REED, McGRANN & CO, 



LANCASTER CITY. 



Execute orders for Stocks and Bonds, allow Interest on 

 Deposits according to time, Loan Money, Make Collec- 

 tions, Buy Gold and Silver, and transact a General 

 Banking Business. 

 Drafts and Passage Certlticates for sale on Europe, 

 GEO. K. REED, A. M. McCONOMY, 



B. J. MCORA.NX, R. U. BRUB.\KER, 



PETER MCCOXOMY. JB. [7-3-3m 



OPENING OF THE NEW HOTEL. 



THE STEVENS HOUSE, 



COR. WEST KING & PRINCE STS., 



LANCASTER CITY, PA., 



IS NOW OPEN TO RECEIVE GUESTS. 



M. H. WILSON & SON. 



PATROSTAOE OF FARMERS SOLICITED. 



«Pft.COMMODIOUS STABLING FURNISHED ON 

 REASONABLE TERMS. [T-l-«m 



PATENTS 



OBTAIED BEST AD CHEAPEST BY 



LOUIS BAGGER & CO., 



SOLICITORS OP PATENTS, 



U?" Address all letters to P. O. Box 444. 



AGRICULTURAL STORE, 



No. 320 North Qneen Street, Lancaster, 



(Near New Market House). 



The Improved Rockaway Grain Fan, Pnitt's Patent Hay 

 Rake :vnd Corn Siiellers for Horse and Hand Power, 

 Cutting Boxes, Corn Planters, and Improved 

 Cider Mills 

 of different kinds and sizes ; also, all kindb of Coach- 

 makers' Stuff. 



Farmers, look to your interest before buying elsewhere. 

 I can sell at small profits. The Shop is two squares 

 northwest of P. R. R. Depot, and two squares south of 

 Rending Depot. Hickory Lumber and Spoke Wood taken 

 in exchange for Machines. 



PLANINQ AND SA^WINQ 



of all kinds at short notice ; and Castings kept on h;md for 

 repairing Farm Machinery. Also, Agricultural imple- 

 ments oi every description on hand. Wire and Sievea 

 made to order for farmers. 



SAMUEIi KEELER, 



6-5-12m] Lancasteh, Pa. 



