The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04
LOCAL. PICKINGS.

Population 339.
Very few visitors.
Received. II; discharged, Z.
Are you Wrestling with that Gladiator?
We are still wearing our winter fiannels O
May.
Read Silence Is Golden" by 1856. 1t is to
the point.
Fourteen men will receive their walking doc
uments during the month of May.
The Irvine factory is receiving the 100 tons of
hemp contracted for in Kentucky
-Trix is singing Comrades" He is got side
partner now by the name of Paddy.
United States prisoners galore. Mississippi
and Louisiana were we'll represented last week.
Old settlers are shaking their heads at the
crop prospects. 1t is discOuraging enough this
spring.
LAS nightingales do upon glOw-lCOrnls feed,
SO poets live upon the living light Vide our
Shorn Poet.
The hospital has added an important item to
its list of comforts. The falls of Ninnehaha can
not be compared to it.
One of the blacksmiths says that he must in
terview the deputy as he would like little of the
d,tlsy for ninety in his work.
Master Royal Lewis, of st. Paul, was shown
the sights of the prison one day last week under
the guidance of Steward Hall.
Statement of population May 3: Working
fol Thresher Co.. 1854; working for state 1914; sick
and infirm, II. Total population, ss9.
One of the boys says, that since he has en-
tered the golden portals of first gradum he has
been limping around the prison with rheuma-
tism.
The center piece added by Deputy Lemon to
the managers dining room is an artistic piece of
work. 1t is purely "hand-wOrk," no stencil
being used in its formation.
The tailoring establishment is again on the
war path Three bolts of second grade cloth
were received Tuesday. and the tailors are hust-
ling to fill contract for about fifteen suits which
are needed right away.
Mr. Gus. Plaster has accepted the position
of foreman of the company's paint shop. He
Immediately issued manifesto to the editor
which read: lone dollar for years. subscrip-
ton to THE MIRROR"
Miss Hortense Willard of Louisville, KY:
Miss Carrie Gilfillan of st. Paul. and Misses Gus
sic Bronson and Annie Staples and Mr.. Oscar
Nelson of this city, were shown the prison last
Saturday by Clerk f. A. OBrien.
The following table is the grade report for
the month of May
First grade Observation-Disclosures.
Second grade.
Ihlrd grade ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Is
-" Although may approve of the fashion of
docking a horses TAIL" said al employee to u.s.
"still when it comes to docking fellows salary
well, it don't make a man feel by any means
like the poet who sang about the hours that
glide unfelt away beneath the sky of May.''
Thanks to "Sinbad's'' nautical experience,
that groaning and creaking of the dollhouse ele-
rope to the main cable and gave it several coats
of straw oil, and now our meals can be hoisted
from galley to main royal yard without hitch
Several of the men are anxious to become
telegraph operators, and ask us how they are to
procure the necessary books instruments, etc.
Consent may be given to purchase the books,
but to the instruments-tich. tich-tick tic1eyi-
tick bur-bu1r-tick! What did the Warden say?
Guard Carlgren is supervising delicate piece
Of work. A cave is being cut out from the solid
rock and when finished will form branch of the
main cavern where the vegetables are stored.
The new compartment will be about 20 feet long,
and is to be used exclusively as cold storage.
1t will easily hold ton of butter
Guard Flannery left us last week, and the
last we heard of him was that he was making
line for Chicago. where he will be Joined by
ex-guards O'Meara and Meahan. We under
stand they have made application for positions
that will entitle them to become naughty,
naughty detective men in the future.