The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-11-02
LOCAL. PICKINGS.

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Population. 400.
Discharged, two.
Just at present the foundry men only cast
every other day.
The usually busy boiler shop wore an air of
quiet last Saturday.
The outdoor hydrants have all been banked
around with manure.
Jack Frost got in his work Sunday night on
the chief engineers flower bed.
The ''refOrmatOry plan" is being used more
frequently now in sentencing prisoners.
The Thresher Cos. paint shop is refinishing
some old office furniture for the front office.
The paint shop corps are doing miscellaneous
work and have quit dabbng so much in red
paint.
Mr.. Mcclellan of the wage ~ shop has been
off to the Fair and his Canadian home at Bel
mont, Ont.
The state tailor is turned glover. making
mittens for the outdoor men. They will lie faced
with leather.
Mr.. S. f. Evans. musical director of the Pier
son evangelist choir, paid our Office brief visit
last Saturday.
-SNm Jill anu OlHeT HloInUeIS Oh Tile CONSTITUTE
ton gang put manure blanket all over Liberty
park last Friday.
One of the state blacksmiths duties is to go
around the dollhouse on Mondays and test the
stability of staples.
The prison pigeons now assemble after meals
on the prisoners kitchen roof to get bread scraps
from the dnng-rOOm
We are credibly informed that the state tail
or was seen roasting goose down in the black
smith shop the other day.
Foreman Plaster of the paint shop is at work
on an alhot car for night lunch route. He is
silent as to the proprietor.
-Katie's family makes quite a pack. They
grow fat and she grows lean. notwithstanding
soup and kitchen perquisiteS.
The blacksmith shop keeps busy putting
learners through their primary course besides
carrying on regular routine work.
The whitewashers seem strictly impartial;
they even hunted ont the brass founder from his
little shop in the corner of the foundry.
Statement of population Nov. 1: Working
for Thresher Co.. 2OS working for State, PIG;
sick and intirm. 6. Total population, 400.
That Organist inquired for has not been
heard from. He need not fear too hard work.
The omnibus for next week is Hope; for Nov
9th, Suffrage. Educational or Manhood; Nov 10Th.
Fear AS a Deterrent of Crime: Nov. 23rd. Self
Love.
Mr.. Sutton did not get to the Worlds Fair
afer all. His father. mother and sister. however.
took it in on their way back from their visit
here.
-schoonmaker. who presided over THE MIR
ROR'S destines for the first two weeks of its ex-
istence. has returned to this seclllsiOn for four
years.
MIR. Sullivan was breaking in new man to
make tanks. AS they are of iron Mr.. Sullivan
expects to break him in before he breaks in the
tanks.
Those sending communications to the editor
without name and cell number attached are just
wasting time and paper. They go to the waste
basket.
The reason the second grade men are not to
get molasses on Tuesdays and Saturdays is be-
cause it has been consumed in a too SyruptitiOus
manner.
The state blacksmith has braced up the stairs
leading from the dnng-rOOm door to the fourth
gallery. They were in the habit of springing and
creaking.
The chief of the whitewash brigade found
yet another victim The state librarian fell be-
meath his baleful gaze and is suffering from
sort of spotted fever.
The combined power of music and glorious
voice were fully exemplifed by many heartfelt
sigh, uttered last Sunday, when the songs Christ
My All and the Rock of Ages melOdiOuSly sank