The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-04-07
LOCAL PICKINGS.

LOCAL PICKINGS.
Population, $40. e.
Guard Cayou has been laid up several days by
sickness.
Three men received their liberty papers dur.
ing the past week.
-Tickled to death-The little boy who tickled
the mules heels.
"A fine load of Minnesota feathers of golden
hue received this week.
The rag man was in this week and took out a
good sized jag of what he came after.
Engineer Jones is happy. as he now has his
machine shop all ready for operations.
Sec w. F. Cross of the State Fair Association
was visitor to the prison last Friday.
Mr.. VIM. Gallagher became a guard of the
prison Monday. in place of John Mealy. resigned.
"A partition has been put up between the
Irvine factory and the storage room of the tub and
pail factory.
Guard Dorr is again at his post of duty, and
is to all appearances just sound as if he had
never had fall.
Miss Perry, edtress of the st. Peter Journal
and her friend Miss Smith, were shown the prison
Monday by Deputy Lemon.
sheriff spalding of Grow Wing county brought
in one prisoner last week to serve year for hav.
ing Incorporated money.
Statement of population April 6: Working
for Thresher Co.. 176; working for state. 1856 sick
and infrm, 9. Total population $40.
On account of the death of superintendent
Dixon there was work in the Thresher com.
pany shops last Friday and Saturday.
Father Corcoran conducted the Catholic serv.
ices in the chapel Sunday for the first time in sew
eral weeks he having been a victim of the grip.
The greatest need of the Minnesota state
prison is and always has been, a decent bath
house-one that even a convict would not dread
to enter.
The dining room Is beauty since the ealci-
miners and frescoers finished their work. If there
no pie in the job it is not because it was not
deserving Of it.
There has been but one death in the prison
within the past year and that one was due to con-
sumption. This makes death rate for the year
of less than one.third Of one per cent
Boys, never be ashamed of your baggy.kneed
trousers. for the New York Sun says that they in.
dictate intellectually and usefulness. The trou.
sers of dudes never bag at the knees.
Mr.. Thomas Hanlon. who is experimenting
the putting in of the binding Irvine machinery,
has been laid up several days by sickness. Mr..
Hanlon has not enjoyed good health since he came
to saltwater.
The calciminers are giving the library its
spring dressing up. The printing Office will be the
next scene of their operations. The Deputy says
the boys are progressing rapidly that the guard
he started out with them has been left week be.
hind.
-"This is the day that the newspaper man
opens letter expecting to find remittance from
the delinquent subscriber but instead draws out a
dunnng letter. OF all April fool jokes this is the
meanest." So say we, Mr. Gazette; and you are
the duck that played it on us.
Guard VIM. McCracken has come down off the
wall to preside over the addition to the Irvine
factory. and A. w. Anderson takes his post. Mr..
Anderson has been doing duty night fireman
during the winter. The coming of warmer wealth
er leaves him free to resume his guard duties.
-Puck's Maverick" of April 9Th is Smiths
Biography" by H. L. Wilson, the story of a man
who in trying to live up to his biography. aston.
ished himself and his friends. This number, in
addition, is plentifully laden with the brightest
and best ideas of the season, with and without
illustrations.
One of the boys whose time expired last week
was met at the gate by one of Uncle Sans fight
ing men and carried away to be tried by court
martial for desertion from the regular army.
Whatever he gets by way of punishment he can
thank his tongue for it. 1t is said that to every
one with whom he became familiarly acquainted
he privately and confdentially impaired the Sc.
cret OF how he beat the army. 1t is very evident
that some one of his conidants proved leaky.