April-showers.

Street Lamps.

Ham and Eggs.

Farmers are busy planting.

Smoky-row is still an eye-sore.

The tin-roof of the College has been repainted.

A bear is reported to have been seen in this vicinity. Several have seen his huge form and heard his frightful grunt.

Consult the advertising column of The Archive before purchasing your base-ball and tennis goods.

Col. Pickett, of Dallas, Texas, was here on the 10th of last month and addressed us in the interest of the Farmers' Alliance.

Messrs. Roberts, Holland and Burkhead have returned from the Newberne fair where they had, as they say, the biggest time out of jail.

When you go to High Point be sure and stop at the Bellevue. The Proprietor is a friend to Trinity students.

Mr. Paul Jones, of Tarboro, a graduate of this College is teaching elocution here. He has twenty pupils. We wish him much success with the boys.

"Coffee" is the Ladies-man of the College, but the girls say that he tells them all the same story.

Lindsay & Bro., of High Point, are selling their stock of clothing at cost.

"Dick" rode at the tournament but did not get a ring. Of course his horse shied!

Rev. E. H. Davis, of High Point, was with us a short while back. Come again, Ed.

The Greensboro Brass Band has been engaged to give us music for our coming commencement. And we expect to have good music as well as a good time. Come.

When you are in Thomasville, stop at Grimes' Hotel, and if you are sick call on Grimes and Strickland.

"Possum" still keeps the path warm between here and Archdale. Sometime the boys will have to hunt him up and pull him out of the mud.

Mrs. Jefferson Davis returned to her home in LaGrange on the 17th ulto., after a short visit to her parents.

A bright Prep, who attended the concert at Thomasville remarked that he did not see the town, but saw lots of pretty girls. We echo "them sentiments."

We will have no Senior Presentation this year, as all of the seniors have as much work as they can attend to without writing speeches for that occasion.

Everybody is getting ready for Commencement. The Marshal and the Manager are making arrangements to accommodate a large crowd, and also to make that crowd enjoy themselves.

The Archive tenders thanks for the kindness shown our Business Manager at High Point and Thomasville.

The young ladies of Thomasville Female College gave a literary and musical entertainment on the 16th. Several of our boys attended and were well pleased, especially with the girls.

Behold the effect that studying Poetics has had on some of our boys! We glean the following from the notebook of one of our Juniors. May the muse who was the cause of this be cast into the uttermost depths of the bottomless pit!

Will the Local Editors of the Archive parse the word "had" in the third item of the local column of the March number and give rule therefor? Please answer through columns of the same.

Respectfully,

Alumnus of '59.

In explanation, we refer to Abbott, How to Parse, § 386:

"(1). 'Better wait a while.'

(2). 'You had better be quiet.'

Here 'had' is Subjunctive, meaning 'would have;' and the sentence would be in full—

(2). 'You would have (find) it better to be quiet.'

(3). 'I had rather be a door-keeper,' i. e. 'I sooner ['rather' meant 'early,' 'soon'] would have,' i. e. 'I prefer to be a door-keeper.'"

Base Ball is now the game of the season. Four or five clubs have been formed and there is a match-game nearly every afternoon. Mr. W. H. Johnston is Captain of the first nine, which is named "The Crowell." The Trinity club has been successful in days gone by and expects to keep up its past reputation under its new name and Captain.

Mr. C. G. Peacock left on the 1st of March for Philadelphia where he will take a business course at Pierce's Business College, preparatory to entering business. Success to you Charlie!

We understand that Mr. Jarrell, of High Point, is leader of a Prohibition Vigilance Committee and those who drink and those who sell will be brought before the authorities every time.

Trinity was enlivened by the charming faces of Misses Lena Hudgins, Lizzie Ballance and Lizzie Lawrence, of the G. F. C., who were visiting Miss Mamie Robbins. They returned on the 25th. Next day the "spider-legs" were sick: their webs had been broken.