The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-05-23
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training school. and everything went off well with
one exception. One of the gosling. canaries per-
sisted in giving the teacher-bird pointers in the
art of music teaching. This made us feel as if we
could have crawled through gmlet hole-and we
crawled.
The artist who does all the decorative paint
ing for the state has put up specimen of his
handiwork the ceiling of the steam kitchen. the
decoration consisting of most artistic arrange
ment of different colored paper He is now en-
gagged in rejuvenatng the upper halls and the
guards sleeping rooms.
Capt Parsons says that since Al was installed
as night cook there has been no trouble in deter
mining the kind Of meat placed the table,
but that previous to that time it hard to tell
an old rubber shoe and beefsteak apart when
cooked by the gentleman who formerly catered to
the wants of the night gu ,rds
The stiffness of the cellroom Sunday after
noon monOtonous in the extreme. 1t Is GUS
tomary to hear the cheerful tones of visitors or
the prattle of the officers children. but last Sun
day took the ton-bons for prolonged quiet. The
ticking of healthy Waterbury watch would have
produced an echo the silence was so complete.
-Americus and the Hustler have stood side by
side on the canary perch, and Sunday after Sun
day have blended their voices in tuneful harmony,
and it Sc ems hard that row, when the latter's
engagement is drawing to a close, that the former
should spring on him the weary old chestnut of
neutrality-suspicious. puzzle. And yet such is
the mournful fact. Truly this is an ungrateful
world.
1t is said that John began is getting vain. At
least says the captain of the night watch 1t ap.
pears that he is very exacting in his demands
the officers tonsOrial artist; and from the fire.
quent head-rubbngs he INDUCES in. it only be
surmised that his scalp is out of order that he
| Is suffering from over-taxation of the brain
| caused no doubt, by the great mental strain to
which arduous night duties subject him.
MIR. Rhoades class in musical instruction is
| an assured fact and as soon as the Board of Man
ayers have organized and arranged the admins
tration of the prison to their satisfaction, it is
safe to presume, that suitable organ will be
purchased for the chapel; and that the choir will
| receive that due consideration, VIII ch the import
| ance of eood and efficient church music and the
healthful influence it exerts, should demand at
tLeir hands.
| Steward Benner having at last completed his
new bathroom is still bent on further improve
ments, and will very soon have the large front
| room upstairs fitted up a comfortable smoking
| and reading room for those guards who are de-
| MED the comforts of home. Then the diminu-
| tive Andrew and the colossal Hans can enjoy
themselves to their hearts content while opening
the seductive jackpot going it blind with the
| deceptive bobtail flush.
| The choir is coming rapidly to its old stand.
ard of excellence. The voluntary on Sunday was
a baritone solo, march movement, with vocal ac-
compartment. The Hustler was in admirable
voice and rendered the solo with artist fin
| ish and excellence that would have done honor
to a metropolitan choir. The vocal accompani.
ment by the choir was in perfect tune and sympa-
thy with the solo, and the concerted movement
well susta ined and harmonious.
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| w. H. Day, student of the University OF
| Minnesota, spent last week in and about this in
stitution acqusint ng himself with its inmates and
the r needs His object mainly, to seek out
those who are without friends that he might find
| them correspondents among his fellow-students.
He hopes by this means to exert good influence
| over those who have started the downward
road, and encourage them to turn back and pur-
sue the road that leads upward to honorable man.
| hood.
| The performance of Camp Scenes, War Songs,
and Tableaux at Music Hall on Monday and Tues
day evenings OF last week, was very admirably
rendered by the amateur talent who so kindly Of
fered their services for the benefit of Muller Post
veterans Had the weather been more propitious
there is no doubt but that the house would have
been crowded; as it was the audience was most