The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-11-19

Warden Garvin started away early Monday
morning and will be absent several days. He will
visit Huron Lake. MIMI, and several points in
Nebraska. to inspect fiber with view to purchas.
ing a supply fer our binding twine factory.
The Thresher company will be prepared by
December LIST to begin in earnest manufacturing
a stock of engines and separators for next sea-
sons trade. 1t is said the company will employ
much larger force of men this season than ever
before.
Sheriff Ole N. Langsett brought in two of
Mobiles county's bad citizens this week. They are
both in for grand larceny in the second degree.
but the gravity Of ones offence called for a whole
years Imprisonment while the other fellow was
let off with eight months.
Asst Supt. c. M. Koehler and wife. OF the st.
Paul workhouse. were visitors in the prison last
Saturday. They we're accompanied by Misses
Katie Mcclellan, Abbie Duncan and Mary Fitz.
gerald of st. Josephs Academy; and Miss Grace
and Mr.. George Fitzgerald.
On Monday morning the satanic member of
staff gracefully transferred his horns insignia
and all the other paraphernaia of his Office to his
successor. The majesty is a little over six
and little under seven feet in height. wears
glasses and speaks Bostonese.
The work of classifying the library books is
now under way. and this is done we
will begin the work of printing catalogue.
Owing to very limited facilities for doing such
job. it will require considerable time, but we
will do it well if it takes all winter.
Here we have been laboring diligently for
years to make literary fame and now the editor of
Puck snatches the laurel from our brow and
places it on the pate of one of his own contribu.
tors. Well, they may have that one, and we will
begin over and make a new one for ourself.
Owing to the cold. Monday morning. the shop
crews formed in the corridors of the cellroom.
There was good deal of confusion at first. but in
due time each lamb found its own flock and shep
herd. This plan will be followed during the win
ter 1t is great improvement on the old way Of
forming in the yard-that is for the winter months.
If any one lost a students lamp Tuesday they
may safely blame the Thresher company. for on
the morning of that day minon of said company
was seen carrying off property of aforementioned
description. He came armed with documental
authority and demanded the surrender forthwith
OF such lampular chattles. the property of the
aforesaid company. were known to be in the
possession of dwellers in this cellular domicile.
He got what he came for.
-Supt. Dixon and Foreman Sutton recently re-
turned from travelling to and fro in the Dakotas.
Mr. Sutton, when asked what he had seen up in
that country. said. Nothing but wheat and
money" At the time he left there the threshing
was only about one.third done. but" said he,
"outside of the towns the wheat stacks are yet so
thick that one cannot see the farm-houses."
of no for will Ut ho 10 TO o;r
threshing done before next spring.
-Puck's Library Of December is entitled 'Tipps;
Being Puck's Best Things About Some Mighty In
teresting Matters" If you want tips the races,
tips stocks, or tips on anything under the sun.
you will find them in Pucks Library; and if you
do not make your everlasting fortune after reading
it, your case is indeed hopeless. If you want fun
enough to last you life time, buy a full set of
Puck's Library. SO numbers This is tip of our
own, for which make no charge.
Tuesday was a cold day in the tub and pail
factory. Guard Cayou shiveringly complained to
Supt Covell that he and his men we're freezing to
death. The superintendent arched his eyebrows.
assumed the airs of one suffering from excessive
warmth and declared that the shop was really to
warm for health. The guard persisted that he
freezing. and to prove that it was cold he led
the doubter up to the thermometer, which hung
within few feet of the main hot air f1ue. and told
him to look at the state of the temperature. The
superintendent looked; drew closer; looked again;
felt his forehead and pulse; pinched himself;
then began shivering and said. Zero! The thing
lies-les like peddler." He went out of the
shop in search of another thermometer to verify
his assertions. The thermometer was then hung
outside the factory door where the mercury
soon went down to 80 degrees below zero. Men
came along looked at the glass. rubbed their
ears, and hurried to get out of the cold
Presently the Deputy Warden came along and
stopped to learn the state of the weather. he
felt of the tip of his nose; took closer looks ex
claimed "Whew;' turned up the collar of his
| overcoat; pulled down his hats TOOK another look
and then Strengthened up; turned down his collar;
raised his hat and walked leisurely away with the
knowledge that the top of that thermometer was
broken off.
Carl PretZel,s Philosophy.
Der Yoostice of Heafen docks a shmall nap
sometimes, but It gets pooty veil awake when der