CLIPPINGS FROM "QUIP."

They had quarreled ! Bitterly, and, it was thought, irrevocably, but he finally mustered up courage to call. Her forgiveness was visible in her eyes.

"I am afraid, George, there is something between us," she began tearfully.

"There shan't be long, dearest," he answered, as they sank to the sofa.

And peace reigned.

Physicians assert that the curvature of the spine should necessarily be bent back.

There is a man in college so afraid of ridicule that he has never perpetrated a joke for fear of being laughed at.

An interesting tug-of-war is reported from Texas. A horse-thief and gravity against the limb of a tree. At first there was a tie, then the first side got the drop. Subsequently the leader of the gang pronounced it a "dead heat."

April is the sovereign of the year. At any rate, its the raining' month.