The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-12-15
LOCAL. PICKINGS.

reputation, 800.
Received. 4; discharged
Song service in the chapel next Sunday.
Are you going to hang up your stocking?
Michael the photographer says that bust
ness is dull.
There are seven men as yet to 90 out during
this month.
-Supt. Murray of Chicago was visitor to the
prison last week.
Engineer and Mrs Jones showed Mrs j. r.
Johnson through the prison yesterday.
The west half of the upper story of the Irvine
factory is being whitewashed. The contract was
given to our friend Dick.
Statement of population Dec. II: Working
for Thresher Co., $780, working for state. 163 sick
and infrm. Z. Total population. 800.
Our engineer is repairing an eght-candle
dynamo which is to be used by Mr.. DiOgeneS
Jones in hunting for an honest man in Chicago.
Mr.. Fred Bordwell, we understand, has been
doing little too much walking around the house
for the good Of that bad knee of his Patience,
Mr.. BOrdwell.
News has been received from " Bob. n.
Round" He is filling the position of a travelling
stSCut HOICS W UO WClI. All tic DOyS utIt
wish him the best of luck.
Credit should be given to Mess Hanlon.
Jones & Co. for placing in the Irvine factory the
two-spindle binder Irvine baller, capacity 1900
pounds. Patent applied for.
j. p. Hammered, sheriff of Stearns county.
j. H. Block, sheriff of NicOIlet county. and JnO.
l.. Eddy, sheriff of Wadena county. were visitors
at the prison during the week.
One of the men is getting his Christmas
cards ready to send out to his friends. 1t is a
grand idea because the cards are the ones he re-
ceived last year from other friends.
Some of the boys fail to sign their names i'm
full when they write to their friends. This de-
lays their mail. as the usher must first find out
who the writer is before he mails the letters.
Nick Mcclellan has closed his office in
North Dakota for the winter and is back again
enjoying the bracing air of saltwater. He is in
charge of the repair department of the Thresher
company in that state.
Jim. the cOlored gentleman who is on the
sick list rugged box on Hyacinth avenue with
the intention of catching a bushel full of spar
rows. He is perhaps surprised to see that the
little fellows don't care to cOngregate around his
box. If he will ask Charlie the reason of it ALL
he will find out that two can play at the same
game
Well we'll. Here is a sheriff of good stand
ing. in one of our counties who left two nice fat
prisoners escape. They were manacled together
and were being carried to the court house to be
tried. but the sheriff fell asleep awakng one hour
afterwards to find that the precious birds had
given him the grand slip.
The following prisoners were received during
the week: Two from Stcdrns Co. for grand
larceny in the first and second degree. 5 years
and 2 years, respectively. One from Nicouet Co.
Keeping house of i'll fame. years and months.
One from Wddend Co. (4th Termer) grand lar
ceny in the second degree. 6 months
There is little secret that has leaked out at
last. and it came to be ventilated through the
change made in our electric lamps. The ones we
now have, though smaller. gives the same salts
faction that the larger ones did. But as far as
giving satisfaction to some of our boys. who were
accustomed to use the larger ones to light their
pipes with. they will prove a dismal failure
Arrah. we're unto We.
That model wooden clock, manufactured by
Prof. II. came very near being counter
part to the tick-tick-never-tO-gO -again clock of
our daddies According to the statement of an
eye witness, a steam pipe had the audacity to
Kick up its heels and play a stream of hot water
on the face of that curious piece of mechanism.
The laws of physics had to be Obeyed-the wood
swelled, and old Father Time found himself
with suspended animation. But the inventor
was equal to the emergency-Bur-r-r-r! Clank!
Ding. dong! and away went this wonderful clock
keeping as good time as ever