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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 



SEADY-MADS CLOTHE, 



—FOR— 



MEN, YOUTHS & BOYS, 



Our stock is the largest in the 

 City of Lancaster. We manufac- 

 ture all our Clothing; we have 

 them sjionged, made up well, and 

 use good i rimmings. 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 manufacture, 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 ready made. If you 

 want to purchase goods by the 

 yard, you can save money at 

 CENTRE HALL, as we buy 

 lai'gely, 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 Ready-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. 



A PATENT-MEDICINE VENDOR who was dilatina: to 

 a larjre crowd upon the wonderful efficacy of his 

 iron bitters pronounced them all-potent in building 

 up an iron constitution. "That is so — that is so," 

 said a hj'stander ; "what he tells you is a fact, gcn- 

 tlenien, every word of it." "Hear that, will you?" 

 cried the delitrhted quack ; " here is a man who has 

 used the bitters, and can recommend them." "No, 

 not exactly that," replied the old fellow. " I have 

 never used the stuff myself, but, you sec, my friend 

 .Jenkins did, and they just saved his life. You see, 

 Jenkins had taken the bitters jest one week before he 

 was shoved in prison for something. He was stripped 

 of everything in the shape of iron about him, and yet 

 he made a bar and worked his way out. He had 

 taken this man's iron bitters, d'ye mind, and what 

 does Jenkins do but open a vein in his arm, and took 

 iron enough out of his blood to make a crow-bar, and 

 prized the gates open with it and let himself out." 

 The vendor set his dog at him. 



A Dormant Wasp. — A West Hill minister picked 

 up a frozen wasp on the pavement recently, and, 

 with a view to advancing the interests of science, 

 he carried it into the house, and held it by the 

 tail while he warmed it ears over a lamp chimney. 

 His object was to see if wasps froze to death, or 

 merely lie dormant during the winter. He is of the 

 opinion that they merely lie dormant, and the dor- 

 mantest kind at that ; and when they revive, he says, 

 the tail thaws out first, for while this one's head, 

 right over the lamp, was so stiff and cold it could not 

 wink, its probe worked with such inconceivable 

 rapidity that the minister could't grasp fast enough 

 to keep up with it. He threw the vicious thing down 

 the lamp chimney, and said he didn't want any more 

 truck with a dortnatit wasp, at which his wife burst 

 into tears, and asked how he a minister of the Gospel 

 could use such language — right before the children 

 too. 



A CORRESPONDENT of the Congregationalixt gives 

 directions how to prevent currant bushes from being 

 destroyed by worms. The eggs are deposited on the 

 under side of a tender leaf about the time the suckers 

 of the currant bush are a foot high. When the eggs 

 begin to hatch, the young feed on the juice of the leaf 

 until they can crawl. Then they drop down and 

 scatter. Soon after the egg is deposited the leaf will 

 turn a purple-redisli color. Such leaves should be 

 plucked as fast as they appear, and hundreds of little 

 creatures will be found. The microscope reveals 

 them plainly. The leaves should be cut so carefully 

 that none of the destructive insects be scattered. 



A GOOD JOKE is told of a certain professor — a 

 stickler for ventilation. Being put in a room at a 

 hotel with another guest, he asked the latter to raise 

 the window at night, as the air was so close. 



" I can't raise it," said the guest after working at 

 the window for a while. 



" Then knock a pane of glass out," said the pro- 

 fessor, which was done. 



After a while the professor got up and broke 

 another pane ; then he was able to sleep ; but in the 

 morning he discovered that they had only broken 

 into a book-cass'. 



A MAN was describing to Douglass Jerrold the 

 story of his courtship and marriage — how his wife 

 had been brought up in a convent, and was on the 

 point of taking the veil, when his presence burst on 

 her enraptured sight, and she accepted him as her 

 husband. Jerrold listened to the end of the story, 

 and then remarked, "She simply thought you better 

 than nun." 



An Irishman, addicted to telling strange stories, 

 said he saw a man beheaded with his hands tied be- 

 hind him, who directly picked up his head and put 

 it on his shoulders in the right place. " Ha ! ha ! 

 ha !" said a by-stander; " how could he pick up his 

 head when his hands were tied behind him?'' "And, 

 sure, what a purty fool ye are!" said Pat; "and 

 couldn't he pick it up with his teeth ? To ould Nick 

 wid yer botheration !" 



The Paris Fifjaro thus neatly answers an anony- 

 mous correspondent: " A note, written by a female 

 hand, asks us why, in polite society, etiquette allows 

 a lady to pay a visit with her veU down. I really do 

 not know, madame; but I would bet it is the ugly 

 ones who set the fashion, and that it is only the pretty 

 women who make inquiries about it." 



Some time-honored jiroverbial sayings need revis- 

 ion to suit the age. For instance, "Boys will be 

 lK>ys " is entirely wrong, for everybody knows that 

 they endeavor to appear like men as much and as 

 soon as possitile. 



It is an extraordinary fact that when people come 

 to what is commonly called high words they gene- 

 rally use low language. 

 • The old gentleman who spent a fortune in trying 

 til raise colts from horse chestnuts, is now attenipfing 

 to get it back again by cultivatiug the egg plant with 

 a view to supplying the market with eggs and chickens. 



EDWARDS & BISHOP, 



36 EAST KING-ST., Lancaster, Pa. 



We respectfully ask the attention of the citizens of 

 Lancaster Covmty to our splendid assortment of 



BOOKS ^^ STA TIONER Y of all kinds. 



BLANK BOOKS of every description. 

 Foreign &' Domestic note-papers &' envelopes. 



Mercantile Stationery — Stationers' Hardware. 

 School BOOKS &- School SUPPLIES. 



ENGPA VINGS, CHROMOS,and an elegant 

 Stock of general fajtcy goods. 



AGENTS FOR 



Tie Baflcroft Sctaol FnrDitnre, 



the best In use. Endorsed by the Phlla. Public School 

 Board and the Stale Normal School at Mlllersvllle. Call 

 and examine. 



School Boards furnished with books and all Schools 

 supplies at the lowest possible prices. 



EDWARDS & BISHOP, 



At the old Stand N0.36 E.KING ST., 



LANCASTER, PA. 

 T-6-3m. 



JOHN M. COWELL, 



Conveiaicer anl Real Estate Agent. 



OFFICE IN LAW BCILUING, 



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



LANCASTER, PA. 



Real Entnte of all description bought, sold and ex- 

 changed on commission. 



Loans Negotiated, Mortgages bought and sold. 



i*rop*'rties taken in charge, and rents, interest, etc., 

 collected. 



Particular attention given to matters appertaining to 

 Keal Estate Law, and Conveyancing. 



Dfftts, Mnrtgngfs, Briffs, Wilis and all other legal 

 instrnmentB correctly drawn and handsomely and neatly 

 engrossed. 



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

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



EEED, McGRANN & CO., 

 mtm III lllllll 



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 

 Banklntf Business. 

 Drafts and Passage Certificates for sale on Europe, 

 GEO. K. REED, A. M. McCONOMT, 



B. J. McGU.\N.V, E. H. BRUBAKER. 



PETER McCON'OMV, Je. P-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. WILSO]^ & SOK 



PATROJf.4GE OF F.IRMERS SOI.ICITED. 



«f».COMMODIOUS STABLING FURNISHED ON 

 REASONABLE TERMS. [7-l-«m 



