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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-17

body before they get through talking. Now, as a
general thing these men have no more causes OF
complaint than do their fellows. and they almost
invariably gain more contempt than sympathy.
One of our boys met with a painful mishap
Monday while making garden over in the war;
den's yard. He was going along the edge OF the
bluff back of the barn with a wheelbarrow load of
stones when he stepped upon a round stone, lost
his balance and tumbled over the edge of the bluff
and the stones from the overturned wheelbarrow
came down on top of him. Besides several bruises
he received a cut over the left eye two inches
long. The doctor put in four stitches and he will
be all right again in a few days. but will always
wear mark to remind him of his fall
We understand that it is the intention to re.
move all the partitions of the ground floor of the
brick building in the south yard and make din
ing room of the space for the inmates. This would
necessitate the vacating of the laundry washroom,
the dynamo room, blacksmith and tin shops, and
the partly fitted-up bath room. dining room
will be money-saving improvement for it will
make it possible to feed the men at a cost con.
siderable less than is possible where they take
their meals in the cells AS it is now there is a
great and unavoidable waste which is caused in
this way. The food is now dished.up in like
quantity for each man and enough must be put in
each ration to satisfy the heartest eaters. About
one-haf of the men eat nearly all they get while
the other half eat from threefourths to one-fourth
of the contents of their dishes. Thus it may be
seen that great saving would be made by feed
ing the men in a dining room where each could be
served with the exact quantity his appetite called
for.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-17
LOCAL PICkINGS.

Empty is the tin shop, Papas gone.
"A pen for forgers-The pen-itentiary.
keep it dark remarked the silent partner.
"A capital sign for bon ton laundry-Washing-
There was goody number of visitors in the
chapel Sunday.
-Talkative persons are mere foaters in the
current of life.
You can shoot a man and kill him. but the
parachutes to save him.
The voice of the raftboat is again heard in
the land of the st. Croix.
Mrs. Laura Burlington and Miss Lulu G. Forde.
of st. Paul. were visitors yesterday.
"A large party of students from the college at
st. Peter visited the prison one day last week.
"A dude recently attempted to blow his brains
out, but it is needless to say what the result
Miss Fannie Engle, of Preston, and Mr.. J. N.
Engle, of saltwater. were in the prison Tuesday.
-"Nothng succeeds like success" but success
in an evil undertaking is most miserable fail
The great fault with the most of us is, are
little too slow in deciding between right and
wrong
-"Rubber-necks" is the name now applied to
those who cannot keep their faces to the front in
chapel.
Captain ]. A. Reed was the guest of Still
water friends last week, and called at the prison
for short time.
Mrs. VIM. Pingray. of Glendale, OAK, and
Mrs. SAM Mcclure, of saltwater. looked through
the prison Friday.
Mr. Wilbur F. Thaver. of Boston, and Mr.. Nap
Bon. Thayer. of st. Louis, looked through the
prison yesterday.
Don't sit down and wait for something to turn
up, on the contrary exert yourself and endeavor
to make something turn up.
The men who succeed best in this mundane
sphere generally those who governed by
the dictates of the monitor within.
Statement of population. April 10th: Working
for Thresher Co., 16l; working for state, 147; sick
and infrm. Is. Total population. 1928.
The certificates of membership to the c. L. S.
C. have been received and it will not be long be-
fore the circle will be fully organized.
Our erstwhile sunny haired devil has arrayed
himself in his hot-weather rament, which is a
sure harbnger of approaching thunderstorms.
Mrs. A. Burr and Mrs. Jessie Parker of Min
neapolis. were shown through the prison Tuesday
by Asst. Supt. G. E. Wilson. of the Thresher Co.
Mr.. F. W. Kirkland, of st. Paul and its great
Pioneer Press took in the sights of this valley OF
oddities Tuesday, and did not neglect to call in
and subscribe.
-Generalutiltyman Bug Bee has been making
garden down in the south east corner of the
yard. Of course he will remember the editor
with the first fruits of the season.
&C. T. Walters, Charles Brown and ]. B. Schaat
st. Paul gentlemen. called at THE MIRROR office
while in the prison Tuesday and had their names
placed upon our subscription list.
Mr.. A. L. Morris and Mr.. B. F. Casey. of
Duluth. visited this institution Tuesday Mr..
Morris left saltwater lately to engage in the pub
LEGATION Of the Lake Superior Catholic" of
Duluth.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-17
A Venal Press.

Mrs. Mulhooly: The paper is full o. crimes, an
all tn names is Oirish.
Mr.. Mulhooly: Sure don't yez know tn Amirikin
press is soobsidized by British goold.-Puck.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-17

speech was given man to conceal his
Thoughts" but it was a needless precaution
in many cases.-Puck.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-04-17

We rise in glory, as we sink in pride,
Where boasting ends. there dignity begins
Young.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22

large as small houses. There is one at
Bradford, Mass, which measures 80 feet
each way, and weighs 100000 pounds.
There is another on a ledge in Vermont
which is even larger than that, and which
must have been carried by the ice across a
valley lying 500 feet below where the stone
now is, showing that the ice was 500 feet
thick. Great powders Of trap rock extend
through Connecticut on a line running to
Long Island sound, and as some of the
same kind are found in Long Island, the
glacier is believed to have crossed the
sound, carrying these rocks with it.
An immense statue of Peter the Great,
in st. Petersburg, stands on one of these
glacier powders of solid granite, which
weighs three million pounds. One of the
largest powders in America is in the Indian
village of Mohegan, near Montville, Conn.
The Indians call the rock "Shehegan. 2"
Its top. which is fat and as large as the
floor of good sized room. is reached by a
ladder.
Sometimes these powders are found
perched upon bare lodges of rock, SO nice
ly balanced that, though Of great weight,
they may be rocked by the hand They are
called rocking stones" Near the little
Connecticut village of Noank, on Long
Island sound, there is an immense bowlder
called by the people there jennings Pull.
pit" 1t was formerly arocking stone, but
the rock has worn away below it and it
can no longer be moved.-Teresa c. Croft
ton in St. Nicholas
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Nassau Hall.

The relation of Princeton university to
the history of the United States stands
visibly embodied in Nassau hall, the most
historic college or university building in
America. When first completed it was
visited by travellers as the largest building
then in the colonies. Within the walls of
this now venerable and still stately pile
were quartered the troops of contending
British and Americans in the Revolutionary
war. The continental congress used it for
their sittings when driven from Philadel-
phia, and adjourned in 1888 to attend the
college commencement in body. Its
walls still bear the imprints of the cannon
balls used in the battle of Princeton, and
a portrait of Washington, painted by
Peale, and paid for with the money given
as an individual gift by the former for the
use of the building by his troops, hangs in
the same frame once filed by the ef1igy of
George II.
Nine signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence frequented its halls-two were
graduates and three were officers of the
corporation which controlled it-and its
windows blazed with light in grand illu-
mination when the news of the signing
reached the town. Aaron Burr studied in
in its class rooms, and his body was borne
from its walls to the neighboring grave
yard.-ProfessorW W. M. Sloane in Harpers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22

was travelling through the country with
freproof paint He was a slim, cadaverous
chap with wheezy voice, and he said to
the father:
sOld man, PHI do it. I've had biles for
the last twenty-five years, and know
what it is to suffer. All of you keep quiet,
and I'll have Bill singing hosannas in
less'n five minutes"
He stepped out of the crowd, wandered
around for bit, and, as Bill became inter
ested in railroad notice tackled on the
wall, the humanitarian approached him
and dealt him smart kick on the calf of his
left leg. A wild yell and jump followed,
and then the room was filled with hats,
dust, coats, arms, legs and boots, and we
pulled Bill off to find the paint man lying I'M
conscious and apparently tied into fourteen
knots. A doctor who was present worked
over him for ten minutes before he opened
his eyes, Bill and the old man had slipped
out long before that, and we had picked
up two teeth, crushed hat broken
watch chain, a smashed watch and some
pieces of cloth, and laid them beside the
victim He stared at US for minute or
two, cleared his mouth of blood, and then
sat up to say:
"Bill had bile I was fool enough to
try to bust it for him. and Bill busted me
| instead Gentlemen, place me on bench
!! and leave me to my reflections. want to
figger out if hain't dangerous man to
be allowed to run at large!'-New York
Sun
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Grease from Cotton Waste.

Until lately cotton waste has been cleaned
and reused, but the grease extracted from
Ii has been thrown away. 1t is now found
that the oil thus extracted can be made,
after very simple treatment, to yield first
class printing ink. A ton of this spent
waste viii yield about ], 400 pounds of oil,
from which ink of a superiec quality can
be manufactured at a very reduced price
The cotton waste is placed in steam cham
bers, and solution of bisulphate of carbon
is pumped into the vessels. This Olsen
cages the oil and grease, which is then
passed into series of heated coppers, from
which it energies as varnish, from which
the printing ink is made.-New York Com
mercial AdvertiqsF'.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
A Use for Broken Bricks.

In every brick yard and around every
new building there accumulates large
quantity of broken bricks for which there
is no present use, and which are usually
consigned to the dump along with other
debris There is purpose, however, for
which much if not all OF this brick waste
might be utilized. In Cuba and some of
the other Spanish countries ordinary brick
dust, made from hard burned and finely
powdered bricks, is mixed with common
lime and SAND, and used as substitute for
hydraulic cement.
An American engineer, whose long resi-
dence in Cuba afforded him ample oppor-
tunities for testing its merits, says that he
found this mixture in all respects superior
to the best Rosendale hydraulic cement for
culverts, drains, tanks, cisterns and even
for roofs. In the course of experiments
with this brick dust cement block of the
mixture half an inch in thickness, made
without sand. was immersed in water for
four months, and upon removal at the end
of that time it bore pressure of fifteen
pounds per square inch without crushing
or splitting.-Philadelp Record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Hardee and a Raw Recruit.

Gen. Hardee, the famous tactician and
Confederate commander, was a strict dis
ciplinarian. One day, while commanding
in the southwest, he rode out on the picket
line, and much to his surprise found a SEN
try, a raw recruit, sitting on a rail fence
munching piece of bacon. The general
appeared not to see him until he got
abreast of him, and then drew his horse
up, expecting to find the sentry at a pre-
sent. He was nothing of the kind, but sat
munching away as unconcernedly as
though he was in his native mountains.
"Do you know who I ann" demanded
Gen. Hardee in his severest tones. "Stran-
ger, low 1 don't" 81 am Gen. Hardee,
and''- Without stopping to hear the
remainder of his sentence the raw recruit
slowly climbed down from the fence, and
shambling into the road, extended his
hand as he said: ''How air yer, gineral?
Pm mighty glad to see yer lookin' so
peart. Boston Traveller.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
A Useful Invention,

There seems to be no limit to the tri-
umphs ofinventive genius. A Californian,
Mr.. A. L. Bancroft, of San Francisco, has
invented method of naming and num-
bering the roads, lanes and byways of
sparsely populated country districts, so
that traveller can find his way to any iso-
lated and remote dwelling as readily as he
could find his way to residence in city.
To people living in the country, and still
more to those who want to find the resi-
dences of people living in remote sections,
MIR. Bancroft's system will be of much
practical value. The world is getting a
great many valuable things from Califor-
nia.-New York Ledger
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
DIDN'T CONSULT THE OWNER.
Strange Adventure of Man with An
other Mans Boil

Strange Adventure of Man with An
other Mans Boil.
A lot of us were waiting at Syracuse
for the train from Oswego, when we
noticed an old man and his son, the latter
about 81 years old and built like horse.
Something seemed to be troubling the boy,
and by and by the old man slipped around
and put us on. Said he:
Bill has got bile on his left leg about
as big as pint cup He's had it two
weeks, and | got him to town to have it
lanced. Come to git here, he hain't got
the sand. Sunthin' orter be done. and I've
thought of way"
"Well?"
I'D bust the bile in York mint if
could get the chance but Bill suspects me-
If one of you fellers would go up and tap
him he'd be the most thankful man in the
county after it was over"
You will always find some one in a crowd
ready to offer himself up for anything
The man in our crowd who volunteered
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
MANY A POOR WOMAN SUFFERS UNTOLD
TORTURE FROM RACK-ACiE

If she oaly knew how easily she could get
relief by using Billiards. Snow Liniment.
she would bless the day she read these few
lines. 1t is grand remedy for headache
and all neuralgia pains. No pain can with
stand its magic influence. 1t removes the
fire from burn or scald in one minute. II
will cure in1ammatory rheumatism and
sciatica; applied to the throat and chest in
Group it viii give immediate relief and
make breathing much easier No family
can be without it if once they know its
value. Try it. Price so cents. l2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
EUPEPSY.

This is what you ought to have, in fact,
you must have it, to fully enjoy life.
Thousands are searching for it daily, and
mourning because they find itnot. Thous
ands upon thousands OF dollars are spent
annually by our people in tue hope that
they may attain this boon. And yet it may
be had by ali. We guarantee that Electric
Bitters, If used according to directions and
the use persisted in, will bring you good
digestion and GUST the demon dyspepsia and
install instead eupepsy. We recommend
Electric Bitters foe dyspepsia and all
diseases of liver. stomach and kidneys
Sold at 50c and 81 per bottle by A. G.
Smith & Co., druggists.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
A Fiat Phonograph Grinder.

In monographs, graphophones and SINH
lar sound recorders use is usually made of
cylinders covered with tinfoil or wax for
receiving, as the cylinders revolve, the i'm
preston made by the scribers. A new
sound recording apparatus operates on an
entirely different principle. The cylinder
is replaced by fat surface, which is made
to oscillate and move downward at regular
intervals by special mechanism New
York Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Utilizing the Rail.

A Bangor, Me-, electrician thinks that
the wire running under the electric rail
way track is unnecessary. He believes
that the rails are sufficient conductors for
the ground current. On the other hand
the men who have worked on the road are
very confident that this wire is indispensa-
BILE. 1t is connected carefully with every
rail and a sure circuit thus secured. Shonld
any rail be skipped it would be known as
dead rail" The copper wire that is
used in this work is quite expensive and
has formed an important item in the cost
of the road.-EXchange.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Got What Ha Needed.

A young medical student walked into
the Old Book store, and said: 81 want to
look at a work on anatomy" Il regret to
say" replied Mr.. Burke, ''that have only
one book on that subject" whats that?n
"Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and
he showed him the volume. The young
man turned the leaves mechanically few
seconds, said it would do, paid for the
book and walked out.-Atlanta Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Proof to the Contrary.

Muddy Blinks (the tramp = Please,
madam, help poor fellow who lost all his
property in the Johnstown flood.
Farmers Wife-What, the great flood
year and half ago?
Muddy Blinks-Yes. madam; 1 was
washed away and nearly drowned.
Farmers Wife-Well, you're a fraud;
can see from your face that you haven't
had good wash in four years.--Light
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
A sure Cara for Piles,

Itching Piles are known by moisture ike
perspiration, causing intense itching when
warm. This form, as well as blind, bleed
ing and protruding, yield at once to DR..
Bosanco's Pile Remedy, which acts d.
rectly on the parts affected, absorbs tu-
mors, allays itching and effects permn-
nent cure. SOC. Druggists or mail; trea-
tise free. DIR. Bosanco, Piqua, D. Sold by
z. G. nj. /. drug store.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
An Advocate of Reeinrocitv.

George-f you don't care for him why
did you let him take your hand as 1 saw
him do last night
Mabel-Well, George, couldn't very
well help 1.-THE had let me take his arm SO
often, you know.-Munsey's Weekly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
rnere Biz sovIa.rs Cone From.

Wherever the glaciers melted they left
an immense amount of "drift"-that is,
sand. gravel and stones of all sorts, which
had been frozen il the ice when the gla-
ciers were forming.
The stones of this drift are of all sizes.
Some are as small as pebbles. others as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Repartce.

Mr.. B.-What are you laughing about,
Jennie?
Mrs. b was just thinking what fool
you looked when you proposed to me.
Mr.. B. (sighing)-Yes, and l was just as
big fool as looked.-Iife.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Too Much Genius.

Poet-Oh-a-I always write my poems
right Off, without any corrections, you
know, and send them straight to the print
er. L never look at 'eIn a second time.
Critic-No more do your readers, my boyl
London Punch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
NaturaIiY.

"What this place suffers from the fresh
men nobody knowsI'' exclaimed a resident
of a college town.
''l'd think you'd sophomore from the sec
ond year men," replied his hearer-Judge
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22

Doctor-The fright that you have had,
madam, has troubled the functions Of the
heart, which has disturbed the circulation
OF the blood and caused your malady.
Patient-And what is it, doctor?
Doctor-Five dollars, madam-Harper's
Rpzar
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22

''What is the typewriter grinning at?"
"Her boss has just given her the sack. ="
-Munsey's Weekly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
] IIA\SS:[)EL-.l

Has arranged for the visitors for Conference and Fair
to get full supplies for this cold SPELL of GOOD
CLOTH and PLUSH SACKS for
ladies, at reduced prices for the coming week. having
bought heavy stock, and will make the reduction.
Also, the same will apply for Dress Goods
and Shawls. The stock Of Ladies' and
Childrens Boots and Shoes Of all we'll
known makes can not be equaled, and our Depart
ment Of Mems and Boys Cloth
ing is unsurpassed for excellence and quality,
made expressly for ourselves.
Hats and Caps in the newest styles
and shapes this fall mportaions embracing the most
varied and complete stock we have ever exhibited.
Our friends from the country rely on the pro-
verbal low prices, for the farmer and family trade
have for twenty-five years been experienced and sue
cessfu in supplying patrons from the largest to
the minutest necessity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Sensible.

'Did you ever have longings, almost ir
resistible longings, to reach,aftcr the unat-
tainable?"
81 can't say that have. Whenever my
collar button gets down my back, l know
it is no use reaching after it. simply I'M
dress myself and let it come out at the
other end. Cape Cod Item.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22

To feel, to love. to suffer, to devote her.
self, will always be the text of the life Of
wcinan-Bal7ac
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Right!

Teacher-Now, children, which state pro
duces the most corn?
Pupil-Kentucky
Teacher-Wrong. Why do you say Ken
lucky?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Sohmer Pianos.

Sohmer Pianos
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Nut Serious.

Pupil-Kentucky produces the most ker
nels.-America
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
Remnants of Silks.

About 300 yards of Colored and Black
Silks, Pushes and Velvets, in lengths
varying from one to two yards each, at
reduction Of 40 per cent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22

lFxUNEED
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-06-11
Jack the KIsser.

There is al unknown man in
Washington, d. c., who has Gauss
ed a reign Of terror in the south
portion of the city, especially
among the ladies who attend St.
Dominick's church. He 10 such
character as "Jack the Ripper
he is a handsome young man and
is known as "Jack the Kisser."
For several months this man has
annoyed young women, both SIM
gle and married, aud the police
have been unable to catch him.
Several times detectives have been
put on his track, and in each in
stance he has succeeded in eluding
them. Parties of men whose wives
and sisters have been the subjects
OF his attacks have watched for
him, but he is always on his guard
and never shows himself when there
is danger.
His practice is to secret HIM
self in dark alleys or in the shad~
ow of a building, and, when
woman he fancies passes,to stealth
ily' approach her from behind,
throw his arms around her,quick-
ly kiss her, and disappear. He offers
no other violence, He may be a
harmless sort OF a fellow, but he
has succeeded in thoroughly alarm
ing the women OF South Wa>hlng-
ton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-06-11

A beautiful line of assorted
missesembroidered and hemstitched
tlouncings just received at Lowrey
IL Orr's.