The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-12-10


j. H. ALBERT, Protestant Chaplain
PRISON AGENT.
F. A. WHITTIER st. Paul. |
Local and General.
OF all the great thinks
In our intellectual dome,
The greatest is this:
II want to go home.''
Patients undergoing treatment in
hospital, 6.
Average school attendance during.
the week, 154.
Prison population Dec. 10th: Males,
498; females, 5; Total, SOB.
Prisoners received during the week
ending Dec. 10th, -. Discharged, 2.
Grade standing Dec. 10th: First
grade, 800; second grade, 1856; third
grade,7.
One steal constitutes grand larceny,
but 144 of them is "gross mismanage-
ment."
Alcohol is valuable for cleaning sill
ver-out of your pocket on Saturday
night.
Somebody should inform the edito-
rial writer's on the big dailies that the
election is over.
Silence is said to be golden, but the
kind that refuses to awaken in defense
of right, is surely not 18K.
The most awful moment in girls
life is when she imagines she discovers
hair growing on her upper lip.
The way of the world is to weigh
personal virtues in a scale that indi-
Gates twenty ounces to the pound
If you attempt to prove by argu-
ment that you are a gentleman, you
clearly demonstrate that you are not.
There are lots of people who hate
the law for no other reason than that
it makes them act halfway decently.
There is a suspicion that Fitzslm-
mons and Sharkey got hot punches in
their stomachs the night before the
late fight.
If the law against carrying concealed
weapons was strictly enforced, sharp
tongued women would have to keep
their mouths shut.
Consistency is a jewel, but if you are
consistent in your cussedness, you will
find the jewel to be of the kind sold at
snide auction houses.
1t is the water in their milk OF hui
man kindness that enables hypocrites
to shed crocodile tears when lion
hearted effort is needed.
The population has passed the five
hundred mark. The fall of the year is
always the rush season" and this year
has been no exception to the rule.
The trouble with some people is that
their mind is so small that it is utterly
unable to hold the great thoughts that
they tell you they have been thinking
out.
The Cuban war has added S5OO,OOO,.
600 to the public debt of Spain, besides
the debt of gratitude owing Grover
Cleveland for discharging "internation-
al obligations
The prison receipts for the month OF
November we're the largest in the his
tory of the institution. The amount
was $85, 1852, the greater part being
collections on binder Irvine.
Try to be like the weather. It never
pays any attention to the chronic growl.
ers who are continually kicking about
the way it behaves itself, but keeps
right on at business as if they never
existed.
Mrs. G. F. Hendryx, wife of the edi.
tor of the Sank Centre Herald, and
Mrs. A. C. Comstock, of St. Paul, both
sisters of Capt. Taylor, the prison turn.
key, were visitors to the institution on
Saturday.
There will be song service in the
chapel next Sunday. Outside talent
may be present to assist the choir in
making the occasion pleasant. Under
the direction of Miss Granting, the
choir has improved it's work greatly in
the last few months and next Sunday
will be prepared to make the services
interesting.