The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-02-23
LOCAL. PlCKlNGS.


Received. .: discharged, ,.
ALI kinds of weather now
Guard Goldsmith was i'll two days last week.
Will somebody kindly serve up that ground
hog ON toast?
Who is going to supply the red shirts. he'll
NETS and belts for our tiremen?
To uhOm it mag cOnccrn 1t is only the cow
ard that strikes in the dark or in the back.
The president of our Pirean circle was i'll
last Sunday. but he is again perambulating
around the dollhouse.
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Statement of population Feb. %: Working
for Thresher Co.. 153; working for state 59: sick
and infirm. g. Total population. 81.
We were pleased to meet Rev. Mr. ThOrne of
saltwater, and Mr.. Henry Nichols of st. Paul. a
well-knOwn newspaperman in that city.
Until the end of the month. the days will
lengthen something more than a minute per day,
1engthenng faster then until the latter part of
June
The stOrekeeper informs us that he has now
a sufficient number of second grade trousers on
coats.
-Supt. Wilson called at THE MIRROR office
Saturday, accompanied by Miss Bolton of Min
HeapOlis and Miss Dixon daughter of eX-supt.
Dixon.
Editors Hoskins, Dearth, Bowling, Hope,
Benner, Ruane, and French were our standebies
during the great rush of visitors to our Office last
week.
A a
a refOrmatory may have a salutary influence,
etc. on young man. Perhaps he meant to say
a solitary influence.
-Hennepin county sent us one man for bur-
glary in the third degree, l year and mos.
Louisiana. one U. s. prisoner sentenced to year
and one day for Justification.
Guard McFall reported for duty Mon
day. When he left Blue Earth county the par
ties interested in the celebrated dam-lawsuit
were still fighting it out on the line.
One of the boys wants to know if our
warden would permit him to establish a brass
band. We don't know. We understand. though,
that the warden abhOrs anything that is brassy.
Rep. Noyes of Washington county and Mrs
Noyes were introduced to We editor by Editor
Nelson. Mr.. and Mrs. Noyes enjoyed seeing
how neat everything was kept around our little
office.
The pen and ink executions of the Lords
Prayer" and lave Maria - by WILL at the hos
pital, are truly works of art. With such a gift
ne will be able to keep the wolf from the door at
all times.
President Dunn of our board of managers,
escorted the following good friends from st.
Paul through the prison: Capt. Ara Barton and
the Misses Rose Madison and Florence and Mel
lie Hemtress.
Mr. j. j. Ryder. Asst City Editor of the ST.
Paul Globe, and Mrs. Clarke, Miss Clarke and
Master Clarke were introduced to and shown the
beauties of THE MIRRORS sanctum by Editor
N. A. Nelson of saltwater.
Eng. Jones' light dynamo is little wonder.
He manufactured it during his leisure hours
with the intention of supplying the boiler and
engine rooms with light, in this way Obviating
using the large dynamo during the early morn
ing hours.
Our colored brother, who was sent to us from
Louisiana by Uncle Sam, is schOol-master by
Guard Stilkey, who is endeavoring to teach him
how to shoot his young mind off on an old sew
ing machine.
Steward Benner hailed with delight the
coming of last Sunday, not alone on account of
1t being his day off " but because day of rest
was really needed after passing through the Or
deal of the Friday previous. Four hundred and
fifty persons we're fed on that day; but the hard
work of the boys in the kitchen in cooking and
also serving the food in quiet and orderly man
ner, fully recOmpensed the steward for all the
trouble he had gone through.