The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-08-31

b6CCeT IdCo CIldQ never as the ny screen
said to the fly. "You lock your stable when the
sliced is stolen," as the fly said to the fly blind.
-Cell-house court is to be "a thing of beauty
after ALL The borders of the stone walks are be-
ing laid with sod under Officer Cayou's super
vision.
Officer COlligan fooled the whitewash brig
ade by sprinkling his shop with sawdust The
crop of spots can be swept out in half of scrub
bling time.
-TriX paid us visit Monday. He expressed
himself pleased with the change in the weather;
rat hunting in the foundry has reduced his flesh
considerably.
Officer Barrett has just been through a white
washing scrape in his shop; the appearance of
machinery betting and floor speaks well for
all concerned.
Miss George Bates of Saltwater, and Miss
Agnes Jordan, Washington, ID. c., visited us
Tuesday with Mr.. Slocum of the Thresher Co.'S
clerical force.
One of the boys bathing last week was given
two pairs of socks. In resgnng one pair he
said he only forfeited the socks because he was
not fOur-feeted himself.
The hospital cells are made additionally
pleasant and cheerful owing to the careful atten-
ton given the flowers by the state florist, with
whom it is labor of love.
-Thirty-two officers of the prison turned out
to see the remains of Officer Carlgren to the
grave, The funeral was very largely attended
by all sorts and conditions of men.
A dynamo, like a question, is harmless
enough when you handle one side of it, but re-
suits are, to say the least startling when you un
dertake to handle both sides of it at once.
Chief Engineer Jones arrived safely East for
acting engineer Sutton received basket of clans
from him. Let us hope some denizen of the deep
has not gathered him in for he is over due.
Papers are only allowed to circulate for one
week after date of imprint; therefore, to do the
most good with them we must ask those who re-
cieve to read and pass promptly to the exchange
box.
The assistant state carpenter put up an ele-
CANT and substantial towel roller in the dollhouse
barber shop. And the towels thereon are in
keeping with the chief barber, they have whisk-
ers on them. --'.
Capt. Hall is again happy. His wife and
daughter have returned from six weeks trip to
Chicago, Maine, New Brunswick and back along
the same route. They are both much benefited
by the holiday.
One of the Thresher Co.'S clerks says the
people down in Missouri must be poorly housed
or poorly educated. One of the company's agents
makes report among other items, OF mans
hOus-hole goods.
The editor and rheumatism are on intimate
but not friendly terms. Those who have missed
his visits must accept this as an eXcuse the gal
leries feel more like galleries to rheumatic bones
these damp nights.
Mrs. Martha Raymond claims to have been
born in ITS. She evidently has not been run
ming prison paper or she would have tele-
phOned to Father Time long ago to bring on his
double edged scythe.
Said key to the editor the other day: "Say
boss. eff Hi wuz ketched maxim a lille sort ono
akeOunt dawg out uf a piece o. tin, wllld Hi be
'scused O. tiE-cur-ing?" Ikey was promptly
warned that such jokes were only permissible
once.
One of our contributors had in moment of
meditation, adorned the outside of his weekly
dole to THE MIRROR with shears paste-pot and
quill, the least of which was the quill. The edi-
tor considers this libel on his recent heroic en-
beavers at originality.
-"-Hence. hence-and do thy best,
IAdI DdCh vi IHuC IHdy DcdI us DuTCHon-.
The above passage from the Reformed Trans
formed, if Byron will permit the paraphrase, is
applicable to the new fiedged citizen who, with
discharge in hand, steps out beyond the gates.
Lives there man with soul so dead.
Who never to himself hath said:
My own, my native" gall.
If there is it isn't him who wanted us to send
and exchange with the Boston Sunday Herald
for his special benefit. We see that Hub of the
Hub take stock of us and shudder at our ardacity
The state barber got back at the editor the
other day for some of the tonsOrial squibs fired
off in these columns. Complaining to him of
passing sleepless nights, he promised relief: it
came-a scrubby little bit of shaving soap
wrapped in piece of paper bearing this inscrip-
ton enclosed find the sOap-hOrrific promised
The US. marshals generally who brought
up U. S. prisoners from the South spoke of their
charges as tOughS of a bad-man type But if
all were told truly it would be proved that the
treatment they received was tough and calculated
to make mOribund mule kick. Approaching the
difference of conditions here, they behave as well
as any.