The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-24
LOCAL PICKINGS.

LOCAL PICKINGS.
The stock room of the Irvine factory is packed
nearly full of hemp.
One of our boys has been attending court in
81. Paul since March 16.
Guard Goldsmith says that the principal bulk
Of his wealth is not in his name. but in his frame.
eff you would hear a terribly eloquent.
just start Steward Benner talking about cock.
reaches and red ants.
One arrival and two departures during the
past week. The arrival was from Polk county and
will serve two aud half years for burglary in the
second degree.
Deputy Lemon is applying his artistic talents
TO fine effect the chapel walls. and when he
gets through it will be the handsomest audience
hall in saltwater.
"A new counter shaft is being hung in the
Irvine factory which will be used in running the
spinners. They are being run at present by long
belts from the main shaft.
The Thresher company is building gas en-.
CINE. Whether it is to be used in the fall cam.
paign. or which of the parties it is being made
for. the reporter has not yet learned.
hands of the whitewashers last week. which
suited very favorably to the appearance of those
ives of fractional men and sole members.
Our matron. Mrs. Walker. returned Monday
morning from Decatur, ILL.,, where she had
been for several weeks attending her daughter
who was very ILL., but is now nearly recovered.
Fearing that you might forget and so run
Short by chewingtoo extravagantly, we kindly
remind you that the time of issuing tobacco has
been changed from Saturday evening to Sunday
morning. This advice is given free.
The only Irishmen we saw "a wearing O. the
green" inside the walls on st. Patrick's Day were
Dutchman and mule. Gatekeeper Flannery suf-
fered the Dutchman to pass, but he couldn't
swallow the mule. so off came the bit of green.
The total number of pupils in the night schoo,
at the end of the quarter just closed, is So. The
examinations show the general averages of the
classes to be in reading, IS; writing. s.; spelling
b5 arithmetic. SO: attendance. IS. There are only
three pupils in the class.
Statement of population March %: Working
for Thresher Co.. 1875 working for state. 154; sick
and infirm, 15 Total population, 34I. OF this po-
pulaton Ramsey county furnishes IS and Henne.
pin 68 prisoners. Sixty counties, the q. S. Court
and Army furnish the remainder.
The printing department has, within the past
week. furnished each guard with an Audience
Book" The blanks in this book are to be used in
making applications of inmates who desire au.
dience with the warden. board of managers or
governor. 1t will be obligatory upon the guard to
write out the application at the request of the in
mate and send it to the warden's Office where
those for the managers and governor will be put
on file until they visit the prison. The guard will
keep a stub record of the application.
The man who peddles insect exterminators
around the galleries evenings begins crying his
wares with timber tongue. but evidently it swels
and stiffens before he completes his rounds. This
is what he cries as he goes: Bug poison! Bug poi.
son! Bug poison Buk poison Buk poison! Buk
poison! Buk boison! Bulk boison! Buk boison.
Ok olson! Uk olson! Uk olson! wuk woison! wuk
woson! Wuk woison! Wuk wozon! Wuk wozon!
Wuk-k.k wozon! Wozon! Wozon-wuk-wuk!
wuk-wak neutrality-suspicious.! Hem!
Bug poison! Bug poison!
The long hand and the short hand had just
Joined company at XII. on their night rounds; the
radiators softly cooed and twittered the crafty rat
glided hither and thither. stopped. listened and
scampered away; the tread of the felt.shod keeper
soft that of the baker in his dough. The
convict slept the sleep of the just and quietude
ruled the night. Inspiring moment! Wen com.
pose and ode to soltude 1.-The poets soul scars
aloft on the ebon wings of night, while plebeians
and fools snoar with all their might and''-
"Crash! Murder! Crash! M.u.r.d.e.r! Help! Help!
Wow-oo.oo-oo!" and all the other cries of human
terror. There is hurrying of feet along the iron
galleries. "What's the matterr' "Wow.oooo.
oo.oo! whop! whop" whats the natter"
ISLAM. bang! bang! wow.oo.oo-oor" - " "There,
there; now get into bed and keep quiet" Thank