The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-10-26

Some southern men are curiOuSly ignorant
of common things and geography which to us of
the North are of everyday use. One of these
came in closer than ordinary contact with a
painter who had just washed off his hands in
benZine. The smell being altogether new to him
he supposed it natural to the person and asked:
what breed is he, anyhOw?' Scandinavian"
Il thought he was something strange. he re-
piled, "he don't smell like an ordinary white
man."
The arm is joined to the body by an almost
swivel joint and is very free in its action the hand
is joined to the arm by joint capabeOf a half
circle sweep. With these two joints properly ex-
ercised it is quite possible to convey food to the
mouth without disturbing "al outside" A for
ward motion of the upper arm, contraction of
the muscles thereof. a turn of the wrist and the
food is safe in the mouth, without knocking the
ear off neighbor. The flying style is not con-
sidered the correct thing in the Four Hundred
j g. T. makes a few pointed remarks as fol-
lows: There is tide in the affairs of men
which if taken at the ebb leads on to fame and
fortune" fear good many of us have been
ashore making our craft tight" splicing the
main BRACE" and looking for "Sea legs'' when
our tide ebbed leaving us hard aground.
lip Yes and many a tumble afterwards.
The fellow who is always complaining about
being reported for his faults reminds one of the
little girl who, upon being reproved for mis-
behavior said, 'everythng do is laid to me-
THE MIRROR will strive to cast it's reflec-
lions undmmed upon its readers for the rest of
the winter. The mutterings of the office devil
will not longer CONCEAL into a frost to dull its
clearness. The rheumatic chill shall no longer
run rampant through aching bones. The cold
type will no longer freeze with stony glare, nor
will the deluding radiator heat our tempers wit
its chilly silence. To the presiding genius of the
heating department and his assisting gehii we
return our sincere thanks. We will deny them
nothing. The seductive bottle-of ink-shall be
uncorked and the satisfying pOt-Of paste-shall
cheer but not inebriate. The shears shall clip
out for them an aureOla gilded to glory by our
best taffy-dipped pencil. LumbagO, Ia ia!
Mr.. Hemstreet, the Thresher Co.'S. pattern
maker. returned from Chicago last Thursday
with dmunutive lizard attached to a scarf pin
by gold chain and collar. The little creature is
called a chameleon but enormously so. The nat
ural history books we have access too here are
not of recent date and do not show any member
of the chameleon family as indigenous to Ameri-
ca. That tribe of arboreal lizards is confined to
Asia, Africa and their contiguous islands and
contains about twenty species. Recent author-
ties, however, may give an American chameleon;
but the actions of Mr.. Hemstreet's pet are all
against his claim to such distinction. He has
that momentary rapidity of movement pre-em-
inenty characteristic of all the lizard order ex-
cept the genus chameleon. The chameleOns move
slowly, are hump-backed. Big-headed and with
prehensile tails, their method of capturing their
insect prey is by lightning shooting out of their
long, flexible tongues which they keep coiled
up in their large. ungainly mouths. This lit
tie fellow, who is graceful slender and of rapid