The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-09-24

IN the chapel furniture last week. Racks were
placed along the backs OF all the seats to hold the
| song books when not in use.
Asst Deputy Glennon is a poor. forlorn wild
over these days. Mrs. GlennoE has taken the
children. the dog and the cat and gone to reside
in the country for a couple of weeks.
Guard Alexander took his family in the one
horse shay Sunday morning and hied him away to
restful Hudson on the st. Croix. The return was
made by the mellow glow of the harvest moon.
Guard Mealey was detained at home Tuesday
by sickness-they say it is sore throat. We
knew that BY hallooing the way he did at the
pantshop fire last winter he would chafe his
larynx.
"A handsome new stand has been placed upon
the chapel platform for the Deputy's use. The
top is of beautiful piece of Tennessee marble
artistically cut and finely polished by the prison
sculptor.
Mr.. c. Fl. Smalley, the editor and manager of
the saltwater Times made our Office visit
last Thursday. He is sprightly gentleman and
will no doubt make the Times felt in the field of
journalism.
Capt Jack Crawford, "tbe poet scout" will
give literary entertainment this evening at
Grand Army Hall for the benefit of Muller Post
No. l. G. A. r. Captain Jack is the favorite of
the Northwest.
Guard COlligan, of the upper machine shop,
has been elevated within the week. but his com.
pensation remains at the old figures. He now
reigns from a raised peacock. green ''throne'
tablished at the west end Of his domain.
The first fresh fish, since the Fourth of July
was received last Friday. He came from Stearns
county for two years. He quite novelty and
the receiving machinery had become so rusty
from disuse that it quite job to initiate him.
Foreman Carlgren's crew have just completed
the work of veneering the side walls of the veg.
etable cave with brick. This has been done in
order to exclude so far as possible the dampness
that has heretofore wrought great damage to the
stored vegetables
On entering THE MIRROR Office Monday
morning we found ourselves surrounded by thou
sands of wasps. On ascending to the upper room
Of the tower we found them hanging to the walls
in clusters of hundreds like honey bees swarming.
There must have been in all peck of them. We
cannot account for their presence in such large
numbers.
Deputy Lemon circulated paper among the
officers and guards last week to raise sum of
money to defray the funeral expenses of Guard
w. B. Cilley. which amounted to 1921. The money
was subscribed in a very short time-twice the
amount could have been raised easily. Each
remembered the certainty of the day coming when
he would need like favor at the hands of friends
left behind.
There are some mighty mean gentlemen in
the world yet. One of them took THE MIRROR
three years and then wrote us that he would not
pay for it because he had notified three times
20 or l.
Strange. we have sent and received thousands Of
letters and papers through the same post offices
without losing any-save his three notices. There
are some awfully unlucky fellows in this old
world.
IA rat! There he goes under that plank! Wait
till get something to kill him with" The spokes.
man presently appeared with an armful of short
pieces of steam pipe. He held one piece aloft
ready to throw. The other fellow raised the plank
out jumped the rat-rattlety bang went the
chunks of iron about the lodging rat. There was
stumping and striking and tangling of legs. There
was a last wild rush. and Mr.. Rat waggled his tail
ira la as he disappeared through a knot hole in
the floor.
On last Saturday THE MIRROR lost its
oldest contributor C. M. M. later "Charles Le
Furst." He began his contributions with the first
number and kept them up pretty regularly until
last week when his last appeared. He wrote many
able articles, and was always the most pains.
taking writer IN the prison. He was connected
with THE MIRROR Office for several months and
did much to help elevate the standard of the
paper He left the prison after a seven years.
stay. looking like gentleman. and it is the hope
of all that he may never belle his looks
This is a strange but true story. Tuesday
| forenoon Gate Guards Flannery and Murphy we're
attending to their duties when they were startled
by the appearance of what seemed to them to be
a large piece of old rope gliding slowly towards
them along Main street. AS it drew near Mr.
Murphy declared it was the "divel' and climbed
up the bars Of the gate. Mr.. Flannery, being G.
A. R. man, could not run away and as he had
been in the liquor business once he was not long
in discovering the nature of the enemy He
grabbed the iron preddng bar and sailed into the
fray. 1t was soon over and his snakeship was a
corpse. Mr.. Murphy was induced by many assur.
ances OF safety to come down from his retreat but
he was perceptibly nervous the remainder Of the
day. The reptile was about four feet long and as
big round as ones arm. Where it came from is a
mystery as there is no shelter for snakes any
where near that locality; but as it came from
down town it il thought probable that it escaped
from the saloon where the saltwater newspaper