The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-16
LOCAL PICKINGS.

Received.
Population. SOL
Pie! ChOw-chow! Come again!.
Say. let's see your Sweet Valentine.
Who is the Shorn Poet by ginger?
-Marionette whiskers are all the go
One insane inmate was sent to the asylum
Tuesday.
Both houses OF the legislature are expected
here tomorrow.
The captain of the dollhouse is sporting
new waste basket.
-WashingtOn's birthday on the 22d. shall
you, shall ''-you know.
Our laboring hours now are from 7:3o A. NJ.
toe NJ. until further notice
IL is not good that man should be alone
said the convict as he escaped over the wall
"A couple of days last week it became too
cold in THE MIRROR Office to set type with COM
fort.
Our two Prison Chaplans. have been making
themselves scarce of late. Guess we better lock
them up.
Our "colored" contributor. "Old Jayson,''
wishes it particularly to be remembered that he
is getting dere wild bOf feet
we are pledSeO 10 nOCe THAT 1HE MIRROR
continues to meet the kind approval and encour-
agement of the Press everywhere.
We understand that one of the boys is circu-
lating the story that he has got $4,000 laid up.
What in thunder is he doing here?
Statement of population Feb. 10: Working
for Thresher Co., $50; working for state 1872: sick
and infrm 9. Total population s21.
The stOrekeeper has now on hand ninety
pairs of second grade trousers. Nine bolts of
the cloth were received during the past week.
The Inspector General of Prisons, residing
at Lucknow, India, again becomes subscriber
Verify, THE MIRROR is the paper of the uni
verse.
Our genial boss of the mess room has been
suffering with ipains in the region of his heart
but it is hoped he will be entirely restored
to health.
-Cellroom guard Cayou gives employment to a
number of willing hands who are always white
washing, scrubbing, and cleaning windows in
the dollhouse.
Mr.. Flannery is back at his post He i'm
parted to us the sad news of the death of his
daughter, who was residing in Nebraska with
her three children.
Jim says that it is astonishing how quick
d
more thorough reading would prove more bene-
fetal in certain cases.
Guard Forester has returned from Blue
Earth county, leaving Guard McFall behind to
attend to the unraveling of the mysteries attend
ing that law suit of the dam.
We are willing to furnish paper to those de-
string to write for THE MIRROR. Some recent
articles have been "basketed' because they
were too deep for our readers.
On account of severe attacks of the "blues.''
sickness, ETC., the regular contributors of THE
MIRROR were mot in it last week, but they
are surely "in the swim" this issue.
The sudden change in the weather has
brought little sickness among us all. Some of
the boys are suffering with severe colds and
nothing but dchee, dchOO. echoes through the
dollhouse.
"A number of our subscribers have failed to
remit the subscription price. Some who sub
scribed the first year have not notified us to dis
continue, and Of course reckon them among
our subscribers. Remit!
The "tattler is an unknown quantity in the
mixture of prison life: and the most indulgent
OF our number cannot but censure him for his
misunderstanding propensities. Let the final
Judgment be, " He can't help it,
OF interest to members of the baldheaded
fraternity. 1t is claimed by one of our boys, that
salt brine, taken from a mackerel kit. and rub
bed daily on the scalp, will produce crop of
hair that will put to shame that of the noted
Sutherland sisters. Try it; and then make appli-
cation to the warden to kick hole through the
wall.