The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-06-06

Cole-d fact. and the infusion Of Younger ee
ment is suggested as a remedy.-Anon.
Those wishing to send their MIRROR away
must have it in the door by the time the
ond bell rings Saturday mornings Hereafter the
P. NJ. will not stop for you TO get your paper
ready.
Col E. C. Mason. who came over from Fort
Smelling and delivered the Memorial Day address
at the Opera House. was shown through the prison
by Capt. w. H. H. Taylor, whose guest the Col
Onel was.
To those two youths who received shaving
tickets some weeks ago, we would say that the
rules of the prison do not compel them to sit up
nights nursing the symptoms of ten-years- hence
mustache.
The short, squeaky footsteps heard in the
cellroom at $40 yesterday morning were those
of Guard Goldsmith on his way to the tonsoral
bazaar. 1t safe to say that he first this
time instead of next"
The following named persons visited here
Tuesday: MIR. w. r. Guile. and County Attorney
Jameson. Minneapolis: Mrs. H. Swinford, and
Miss Florence Swinford, Winnipeg. and Mrs. w.
H. Drake. of White Bear.
This prison is blest with an abundance of
pure cold water. There bubbling springs on
three sides of the yard and the water from sew
era of them is conducted through pipes into tanks
in the cellroom and kitchen.
The other day a box of beautiful flowers was
received at the hospital, VIII oh the it of
generous lady of saltwater She has the sincerest
gratitude of those who doubly unfortunate in
being both sick and in prison.
If there is one thing more than another that
will bring out into bold relief the occult temper
of the average convict, it is to make msscue in
arranging his adjustable table for dinner, and
land his syrup can on the floor bottom side up.
Capt. Taylor recently sent prison ma de cane
to an officer of the U. S. A., and in letter of
thanks received the information that during the
war he, the Capt had presented his wife with
feather pillow. The Captain is now scratch ng
his head for lost "reminiscences.
Master Joseph Cayou from White
Bear during the week attending the exercises OF
the T. A. society at st. Michaers church prepara-
tory to attending the annual convention of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union, which began in
st. Paul yesterday and ends to-da..
We did first rate in Chapel last Sunday. There
was scarcely any of the disagreeabe noise COM
mon on previous Sundays There was just about
the prison who do not read their paper. A del :.
cate hint good manners is all we need at any
time.
The inmate who sent around those STRIPPING
walnuts to his neghbor Saturday will kindly
furnish nut-cracker with the next installment
or stand his share of the expense for repairing
two adult moars injured in the search for the ed
ible quaint ty presumed to exist within the fnty
she'll
The villains who were implicated in the con-
structiOn of the Memorial Day gingerbread are still
at large. 1t behooves them to keep in the dark
for reasons best known to their victims. One man
says that at the first shock he thought he had
been struck by fragment of the busted Oklahoma
boom.
On Monday a little fishing excursion was got
| ten up for the diversion of exWarden Garvin So
far we are able to learn, only Judge Nethaway,
and A. X. Doe were actually implicated, but it is
strongly suspected that Steward Benner and Dep
uty Westby were accessories before the fact How
it is said the haul so large as at first
reported.
Where all the cats gone? is a question
that agitates many of the boys at present But a
few months ago it common occurrence to
have sleek, chubby-faced feline come into the
| cell after tdbits. Are the mice all extermnated
sOr IS it possible that the ''infernal' machine in
| the kitchen explains the absence of the frolic-
some puss?
| Sometime ago. it will be remembered. we men.
| toned the fact in these columns that Taylor
Combs, a former inmate of this institution. had
died at the Rochester insane asylum. This week
comes the report that he was killed in the most
brutal manner by two attendants. They have
been arrested and are now in Jail awaiting the &C.
| ton of the grand jury.
An aged German who is daily to be seen prom
enadng gallery claims to have found the philos-
opher's stone and has applied to US for space to
make known his power of curing every disease to
which man is heir. He lays particular stress on