The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-04-21
LOCAL PICKINGS.

LOCAL PICKINGS.
"A high roller--The man in the moon.
Eggs with pumpkin pie on the side for Easter
dinner.
One arrival and two departures during the
past week.
Manager Hall and Secretary Hart were about
the prison last Thursday.
Manager Norrish is travelling in California
with his wife and daughter.
The voice of the raft boat will soon be heard
in the valley of the st. Croix.
The lawn has been doing its best to turn
green. but the weather is to chilly for it.
Mr.. Bloom, of the village of Marine, became a
guard of the prison Tuesday in place of Mr.. Alex
ander. resigned.
The hospital is almost deserted these days;
there being but one permanent residenter-he Of
the rheumatic leg.
Steward Benner has hand fine line of
buggies. of the cockaroacha pattern, that he de-.
sires to dispose of at once.
Statement of population April 20: Working
for Thresher Co.. 1873; working for state 1866 sick
and infrm, 6. Total population, 1856.
-Chautauqua will meet next Sunday also the
Sunday following. Thus, the meetings will be
brought about in regular order again.
Sheriff Spalding. of Crow Wing county,
brought in one prisoner last week to serve six
months for grand larceny in the second degree.
The beautiful and gifted tiger cat of the mess
room has not been home for a fortnight. conse-
quently there is sorrow in the bosoms of the dish
ersup.
Might Guard Austin and Night Turnkey Win
dolph have exchanged places, so now Mr.. Austin
has one of those pesky little time detector boxes
all to himself.
The new lathe for the state machine shop has
arrived and is now in place. The gentlemen of
that department are now prepared to do all kinds
of repairing in iron.
1T is 6one-the gardening Island the Steward
now walks about with his hands pocketed waiting
for the good things to grow. He cocketh up his
weather eye and saith. 1--WE needeth rain.''
Foreman Carlgren and his gang have been at
work for the past week in the old state boiler
room and it looks very much as if they were
preparing it for a bath room. 1t would make
good one.
Bishop Gilbert did not hold service here
Easter as was announced laSC week. Inc bishops
health would not permit of his being here. 1t was
disappointment to those who had heard the
bishop in times past.
-Puck's Maverick of April Goth is "A Prairie
Blossom."by Madeline S. Bridges-a story from
the divorce region of Sioux Falls. This number
is we'll stocked with the brightest of current
humor, in prose and verse.
"A peep into the vegetable cave shows that the
stock of potatoes. carrots, rutabagas. etc., is
ming low. When we looked at the pile last fall it
seemed as though we would never be able to eat
it up. but we have nearly done it.
Editor Neumier. of the st. Croix Post. in
the prison Friday with Mr.. James Smith, who has
accepted position reporter on the Posts staff.
THE MIRROR wishes Mr.. Smith successful
career, and advises him to beware of Cowles, Mel.
son, ct allii.
Hospital Steward Hall is a very proud man
these days as he has just become the sole owner
of "Appletons' Library of Medicine consisting
of thirteen volumes in Morocco binding. The set
cost sixtyve dollars. but the Steward says that is
nothing at all-will never feel it.
They have set up a new machine in the upper
room of the Irvine factory and they call it the
''softener." 1t is a set of corrugated cast iron
rollers. which smash up all woody matter that
may be in the hemp. The going through this ma
chine is the first process to which the hemp is sub.
jected. 1t would make fine machine for loosen
ing up the fibre of tough beefsteak.
Deputy Lemon has been a sufferer during the
past week from synovitis of the right shoulder
joint. He had been suffering for sometime with
what he supposed was rheumatism in the shoul''
der. but on the physician discovering the mistake
he at once bound the right arm firmly to his body
so that not muscle could work. and now the
Deputy goes about with an empty sleeve.