The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-10
LOCAL. PICKINGS.

Who did you vote for?
Keep your coat tails off my soup!
Thanksgiving two weeks from to-day
''HOw do you think my coat fits. MIR. CayOu?"
Received during the week. 4; discharged. B.
Say. was your man showed under last Tues
day?
Button up your first-grade coat OF you'll get
. mark.
Hope we won't receive any poems Oh beauti-
fHl snow.
"A pipe is being laid to supply the boiler shop
with steam.
The Irvine factory received last week 10000
pounds of Minnesota hemp.
Statement of population Nov. 8: Working
for Thresher Co., 145; working for state, 163 sick
and infirm, 6. Total population, 314.
Jim and Cop have been appointed bosses
OF the first and second grade dining rooms. My!
don't they look fine in their clean bibs.
Steward Benner says that our winter supply
Of whites has been stored. Pile up the Yule-
logs, Steward and give us our pumpkin pie
MIR. Fred Bordwell is still confined to his
bed, but the injured knee is rapidly gaining in
strength. We hope ere soon to see him at his
FoHt
Miss Foley, our assistant clerk. was taken
i'll last week with slight attack of la grippe
She is better now and will soon be able to attend
to her duties.
Billy, our chef de cuisine, is raising mus
tache. We advise him to apply a little plaster of
Paris to keep the ends from getting into his soup
Oh, Willie!
-Itasca county sent us three men during the
week. Two for grand larceny in the second de-
gree. years and year; one for burglary, year.
One United State prisoner was received from
Mississippi.
"A considerable amount of paint and labor
was expended in identifying our two dining halls
but as some of our good people insist on leaning
against the walls the neatness that now delights
the eye will disappear into spots galore.
Last Monday the first grade men dOnned the
coats and vests of the new suits, and they look
'fOine.' The trousers will soon follow Many
of the boys say that they hope that such word
as stripes will be stricken off our prison vo-
cabulary.
A sign which has been placed on the wall of
the passage way. leading from the kitchen to the
dollhouse. advises visitors to refrain from speak
ing to or pointing at prisoners. 1t would have
been appropriate to have added: And don't
stare them out of cOuntenance.''
Warden Wolfer had as visitors last week.
Chief of Detective Mason and Sergeant of Police
BOerner of st. Paul. They paid THE MIRROR
short visit and were pleased to learn of the Sue
cess of our little paper. Sergeant Boerner is the
private secretary of Chief Garvin.
The following dialogue took place between
Usher Bloom and two visitors of unknown ma
tiOnality: I'VE want to see the slObs-slays or
what you call NJ" What is it? Do YOU
mean you want to go through the prisOn?'-
"Yes; that's it! How much will it be:'-
Twill cost twenty-five cents piece! So What!
You've got a lot in there, haint yOu?"-'. About
three hundred and seventeen. TWENTY-FIVE
cents piece did you say? Do you mean to tell
us twill cost us 1925 tOsee your damn place
hereof said, twill cost twenty-five cents for
each visitor to go through this prison. - A
quick rush was then made, and not another
word spoken.
The Wardens remarks last Tuesday noon
were to the point. 1t proves cOnclusively that
we have been forming opinions too hastily, es-
pecially regarding our chuck. 1t has been al
most impossible in such short space of time
for any one to have been able to figure correctly
the ms and outs of the three grades 1t is true
that Ill our condition we are apt also, to magnify
small things; but the assurance given by our
Warden. regarding the position that the first
grade men will occupy, is promise that dispels
all doubts and that we are to be continually lin
II - as long as the first grade men behave them
selves. otherwise there's d dark and weary
road before us the third grade!