The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-05-03

A New York justice of the peace fined
a woman s. for kissing policeman.
The policeman was cleared. A police
man always was the luckiest kind of a
fellow.-Kaw's Mouth.
While one honest man is looking visit
fully towards the capture of Menage,
a dozen thieves are protecting him.
This is the way it looks to casual
observer.-Irish Standard.
An Indianapolis juror is in Jail be-
cause he intimated that for consider
alton he would clog the wheels Of JUS
tice and prevent the conviction of the
Indianapolis bank wreckers.-Still-
water Gazette.
cts long lane that has no turning"
said a gentleman looking at the pen at
saltwater the other day. "Welf' re-
marked bystander. at may have no
turning, but it has large number of
crooks. Minneapolis Journal.
Paul Jones of Boston, who started in
natures gllise to make tour of the
world and accumulate $1,000 in one
year, has already captured a suit of
clothes and $500. He is going to New
York to join the police force and &C
cumulate the Minneapolis Daily
| Times.
Judge McAdams Of the Superior
Court in New York has dismissed the
application of Charley Mitchell, the
English pugilist, for an injunction re-
straining certain publishing house
from publishing book on boxing in
which Mitchells name appears as the
Washington Ratchet.
A boy in Waterville was sentenced to
serve forty days in jail for stealing a
turkey; colored boy in Iowa got six
years for lifting some old tools; Boss
Mckane got six years for stealing mill
ions of dollars from the working classes.
Menage committed the biggest steal
ever known in Minnesota, and he is
roaming around loose living on the fat
of the land.-St. Peter Journal.
The warden of the Bellevue insane
asylum, New Y ork, attributes the recent
increase in insanity to the bad quality
of the whiskey generally dispensed in
saloons. If he will kindly point out
how good quality of that poison may
be obtained, he will confer public ben
eft Whiskey can be graded only by
it's degrees of badness. There is no
good whiskey.-St. Paul Daily Globe.
Preachers boys are occasionally mis-
chevious and sometimes one is found
that is positively wicked. 1t is said
that in neighboring town, Sabbath
or two ago, d minister in looking over
the congregation in the midst of his
sermon, was startled to see his own boy
in the gallery pelting the hearers with
peanuts. While the good man was pre-
pairing frown of reproof the young
bundle of possibilities cried out: ~ GU
tend to your preaching, dad; Ill keep
them awake" -SheldOn Eagle.
How easy it is to kick person when
he is down. Human nature can scarcely
resist the temptation to heap abuse and
scorn and every other humiliating thing
that comes to hand. Evils which the
fallen one has never known or dreamed
of are freely charged up against him,
and fortunate indeed is he who rises
unmarried by those who were glad to be
his friends in other days. Many man
has smothered his ambition, iabored on
in an uncongenial atmosphere, and was
finally lost to the things most dear to
his heart and life, simply because he
was endeavoring to carry out that which
his own conscience did not approve
Red Wing Journal.
John Barnes, colored cook in the
Augusta, Ga, Jail, owes the city over
six years time in police court sentences
for intoxicatiOn. He has been cook in
the prison for five years and is allowed
W ~ OuC ONOly CdCCt1Uoy H1SHO, Ill gu 1o'
bly, getting intoxicated and being re-
sentenced before his former one is
served. Thus it is that his time has ac-
cumulated. Forty-eight hours is the
longest that he has been out Of jail in
the last few years, and when sentenced
he is given his own commitment and
goes directly to jail without guard OF
any kind. He has never failed to &C
directly and turn himself over to the
} jailer.-DetrOit Free Press.
We so often hear said in regard to
young mans character, she is only sow
ing his wild oats, and the way it is saio
shows that evil conduct on his part is
considered lightly and as if such things