The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-02-19

atOrs Wood, Craven and Mcmillan have all been
printers at one time or another during their ca
reers. We were just on the point of presenting a
petition to them for dress of type for our
paper when the spirit struck them and they went
below.
A carload of hemp has been received and
stored on the floor above the Irvine factory. 1t
had been very poorly cleaned but the gentleman
who sold it to the state will not get paid fer his
sticks they have been shaken out and their
weight deducted from the original weight of the
whole lot.
Our devils knowledge of sports is rather
limited. He had heard Of the ''ski club. and we
suppose he had formed ideas of his own as to
what the name signifed. So when read aloud
that liver Iverson, the 49, year old boy, had made
a leap of IA feet, he opened his eyes and ex-
claimed what. hgh?'
-Puck's Library for March is entitled Dollars
and Cents; Being Puck's Best Things About the
Scramble for Scads." Like the preceding num-
bers of the Library it is full of wit and humor
as an egg is of meat. AS most of those who see a
copy of Puck's Library wish to procure the entire
set, it may be well to note that ack-numbers can
be had at any time from the publishers. Send for
a copy of their illustrated catalogue.
The senate committee appointed to investi.
gate the state prison affairs were here Friday.
The senators present were j. W. Craven VIM. S.
Dedon. E. o. Erickson. j. A. Kiester, F. G. Nc
MILAN and John B. Sanborn. The latter senator
was chairman. They we're accompanied by two
stenographers, s. E. Sawyer and NJ. Helwig. Sen.
ator Sabin. Hon. Geo. M. Seymour, Manager. H.
c. Fogle and Clerk Drank Berry were the principal
witnesses called before the committee. They
made pretty thorough inspection of all the de-
partments of the prison.
Manager Nj. o. Hall takes pleasure in showing
the printing Office to his friends and acquaintances
whenever he is about the prison. That is right,
for it is well to remind people that this is age
of progression and not repression in prisons as
well as in colleges and all institutions where men
to be fitted for usefulness in the world. There
is hardly educational institution of Importance
in the country but has its publication. and
the prisons-which really schools. good or bad
are starting their publications one by one as
they come to see the practicablity of the insttu-
tional newspaper.
One of the boys employed in the tub and pail
shop lost of his fingers Tuesday by getting it
caught in the machinery of the elevator. He is
the second inmate OI tne same name tnat mas LOST
a finger lately. The Sullivans seem to be an un.
lucky set. 1t was Foreman Sullivan that had his
arm torn off in the sheetron shop, another Sui.
livan that was badly injured by being caught un-
der a caying bank while making the excavation
for the wall. and now two Sullvans have each lost
a finger There is but of the Sullivans left un-
injured, but as he handles the meatax in the bar
Der shop the probabilities that his time is not
far off, in fact he has been scaded once already.
"A primary school opened in the chapel
last Friday evening with twenty scholars and
three teachers present. Two long desks had been
placed between the seats at the back end of the
hall. Books, states and lamps were on the desks
and all the boys had to do was to march in and go
to work. Deputy Lemon present and, after
expressing regret at the absence of Warden Gar
vim. who had been detained away, he told the
scholars that as the school for their own ben
eft, it was expected that they would make the
most of their opportunities. The teachers then
took charge of their pupils and the work began.
Most of the boys able to read little En-
glsh, but only few could write little. The
school will be open Monday, Wednesday and
Friday evenings of each week.