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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-15

at 1880. Pastors class in Bible Study, Friday
Pastors residence. 52s N. Second street.
Grace Congregational.
Corner 5th and Laurel streets. Rev. j. H.
ALBERT. PASTOR, Sunday services. preach,
ng a. A. 5na E De- sn say p %
Christian Endeavor $3.50 p. m. Children's
Mission Band the second Sunday Of each
Aid Society, Thursday afternoons. Ladies'
Missionary Society. the last Friday of each
Local and General.
Said bicycle boy, Nov then
will ride like the racing men!''
But he got into trouble,
For he bent himself double
And couldn't bend back again.
milwaukee, Illustrated News.
Patients undergoing treatment in
hospital, 8.
Prison population Oct. 18th: Males,
447; females, =
Prisoners received during the week
ending Oct. 18th, 9. Discharged, Z.
Grade standing Oct. 18th: First
grade, 329; second grade, 112; third
grades.
The road to Rouen is via. Paris.
If "fy-cops' had wings they would
have better chance Of catching es-
capped jail-birds.
The reason Truth is stranger than
fiction is because so few people care
to make it's acquaintance
The teamster, although of cheer
full disposition, always has a tale of
whoa, and sings it away up in gee.
Amid all the discomfort attending
the labor question, nobody seems to
complain of the low wages of sin.
A political roorback may be defined
as the sum total of all the lies, mud
throwing and vilIifcation of a cam
paign.
Thirty minutes have been deducted
from the working hours. AS the days
grow shorter, further reductions will
be made.
Among the new arrivals this week
were three rioters. They will proba-
bly, riot up their impressions of pris-
on life before leaving.
AS election day approaches, the can
didates begin to feel somewhat like the
man who is ordered by the Judge to
stand up for sentence.
The team of greys belonging to the
state, will be sold shortly. They are
growing too strong, and there is fear
that they might draw the salaries of
the guards.
The close of the Cuban war will be
good thing for peace and humanity,
but hard on the American tobacco
growers, who now have monopoly on
"pure Havana leaf"
Mesdames VIM. Smithson, of Still
water. and B. w. Roberts, of Minneap-
oils, were shown the various depart
ments of the prison by Officer Gold
smith on the 18th.
Rev Father O'Brien, of Minneap-
oils, who has on several occasions ad-
dressed the inmates of this institution,
was around the prison Saturday renew
ing old acquaintance.
If the people we don't like were as
bad as we think they are, and if we
were as low down and onery as they
know us to be, what delightful world
this would be, forsooth.
This is queer world. Those who
command are always expatiating on
the virtue of obedience, and those who
obey never tire of waxing eloquent on
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-15
Local and General.
Said bicycle boy, "NOw then
/ will ride like the racing men!"
But he got into trouble,
For he bent himself double,
And couldn't bend back again.
Miluonlxoo Illustrated NJ

Milwaukee Illustrated News,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-15

We have two birds in our office, and
they are both "birds." They can sing
about as we'll as the best songsters in
the choir, look as pretty as the ebony
hued runner for the front office and
are about as easy to manage as young
lady with her first pair of bloomers.
But what they lack in birdly accom-
plishments they make up in the
vast amount of seed they consume.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-15

Sunday evening last, hot coffee was
served in the dollhouse This is new
and welcome addition to the prison
privileges. Sunday, with its long lay
over in the cells, is the most dreaded
day of the week and hot coffee in the
evening is the proper thing to infuse
warmth and drive away the blues.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
derness, why, wa,s. !. = Lee tenderness

! - /
is! &. a. az ST. "a
I have no more hopes OF, you now
than tn y had when / wrote you But I:
2a !9le, to you, and will always be-.
Ion 8 70 you, lust for your once loving.
ever. though you now despise me,.now
and forever. 5.s1.35
2 !, shall tell her frankly, extenuating
nothing. For will have no more lies
IN that am resolved
Anne, | did not truly live without
you, and i crave the intensest living.
y think of you always as saw you
. NJ and fair, with the gold across
. your temples, and the museful, wistful
mouth with it's serious thinking 81
slences and then it's soft, rapid speech,
ana the eyes, the blue eyes, that had
Tor Tor NE such exquisite language. You
are repose-heaven! And I am in a
he'll OF my. own ma king, and. dearest, j.
could not help it. All. I am pleading
1 did not mean to plead.
sS Did you have a dream Of me, as no.
ble say? Here am I, who love life be-
cause OF you, who love you more than
That life or my hope of heaven. But
what to you is such a love?
She Is coming soon. and I shall tel!
her. | say I shall have no more decep.
ton. am yours-yours! 1 dare not
write the prayer that is in my heart
4 cannot say farewell Remember:
when you despise me most, l am
yours!
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PROBLEMS OF vENT1LAT1oN.

The Compositions of Expired Air and
Its Effect on Animal Life.
The following are substantially the
conclusions reached by Drs. j. S. Bill
ings, S. Wier Mitchell and d. III. Ber-
gey regarding the composition Of ex-
PRED air and it's effect upon animal
life which are published in the Smith.
sonian Contributions. These contra
dictions Of certain accepted views are
Important and likely to give rise to
discussion.
There is no peculiar organic matter
which is poisonous to animals lex
Guiding man) in the air expired by
healthy mice, sparroWs, ia bbits, guinea
pigs or men. The injurious effects of
such air appeared to be due entirely to
the diminution of oxygen or the in
crease of carbonic acid, or to com
bination Of these two factors. 1t is
very probable that the minute guam
tity OF organic matter contained in the
air expired from human lungs has any
deleterious influence upon men who
inhale it in ordinary rooms. In or
binary quiet respiration nos bacteria
are contained in the expired air. In
s tLCN at VI COuSulll I'll SuScHAuS SUCH
organisms may be thrown out. The
minute quantity Of ammonia, or of
combined nitrogen, or other oxidizable
matters found in the condensed moist
ure Of human breath appears to be
largely due to products of the decOm-
position of organic matter which is
constantly going on in the mouth and
pharaynx. The air in an inhabited
room, such as hospital ward, in
which experiments were made, is con-
taminated from many sources besides
the expired air of the occupants, and
the most important Of these contamina-
tons are in the form of minute parti-
cles of dusts. The experiments on the
air of the hospital ward showed that
in this dust there were micro-organ-
isms, including some Of the bacteria
which produce Inflammation and sup
duration, and it is probable that these
were the only really dangerous ele-
ments in this air.-Appleton's Popular
Science Monthly. e..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27

time is a famous merchant Of fOrgetful.
ness, and Mona, after few years, ap-s
peared to me to become somewhat rec
onciled. Besides, her grief had not pre-
vented her from growing handsOmer,
and taking pride in herself, and it Is
not because loved her as a father. but,
upon my honor, she was the freshest
and prettiest young girl in the parish.
We lived so happily together. We were
not rich, to be sure, but we lived, and
we enjoyed ourselves all the same. /
had my pension and my medal, and
then we used to go together to hunt for,
Holsters in thesrocks. The trade is a
paying one, and there is only one dan.
ger-that of being overttaken by the
tide. All, unfortunately, that was how
she met her death, poor little one!
One day, when my rheumatism con-
fined me to the house, she went fishing
alone. 1t was just such a day as to-
day; the sky clear, the wind high.
When the rock searchers gathered to-.
gether with full baskets they perceived
I that Mona failed to respond to their
calls. There was no possible doubt.
Great God, she had been delayed and
surrounded by the rising tide! She had
been drowned! All, what a might I
passed. monsieure At my age, yes, a
hard hearted man like me, sobbed like
a woman. And the remembrance came
to me Of the poor child's belief that to
go to heaven she must be inferred in
consecrated ground. Therefore, as soon
as the tide went down, / went to the.
shore, and, with the others, searched
for the body.
"And we found poor Mona" contin-
lled the old sailor in a trembling voice
We found her on a rock covered with
sea weed, where, knowing that she was
going to die, the poor little one had pre-
pared herself for death. Yes, mon
sieur, she had tied her skirts below the
knees with her fchu, through modesty,
and with her old idea uppermost had
attached herself to the sea weed by her
haiH her beautiful black hair, certain
that she would thus be found and in
tered in consecratedH ground. And I
can say, who know what bravery is,
that there is perhaps not a man brave
enough to do likewise"
The old man.was silent. By the last
CLEAN Of the twilight saw two great
tears rolling down his weather-beaten
cheeks. We descended to the village
side by side in silence. I was profound
ly touched by this simple girls courage,
who, even in the agonies of death, had
retained the modesty of her sex and the
piety of her race, and before me, in the
distant immensely, in the solitudes of
the heavens and the sea, cleaned out
the beacon lights and the stars.
Oh, brave men of the sea! Oh, no
BILE Brittany!-From the French of
Francois Coppee, for Romance. =
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
NO ONE IS OVERwORKED.
Those Who Knows Say That No Kind
of Labor Is Injurious.

of Labor Is I'M urtOus.
An eminent medical authority dis
credits the theory that men (or wo-
men, either break down from over
work. He says the brain does its
work with the minimum of effort, that
with due nutriment and rest in sleep it
can work continuously during waking
hours, and that, instead of being in
jured by severe labor, it is improved
by it, if the labor is done under normal
conditions. 'When a man says he is
suffering from the effects of over
work." adds this authority, "the wise
physician wants to- know what his
vices are. Worry may be one. The
worries of life do infinitely more harm
than the work Of life, however onerous
it may be-" "
The candid experience of almost ev-
cry brain-worker will confirm this the
DRY. A person who is suffering from
that many-headed monster called nerv.
Gus prostration will,if he carefully re-
views the events of his life, find that
it was brought on by irregular modes
Of life, and not by excessive brain
work. Z. TO acertain extent, the same
thing is true of physical labor. 1t is
very seldom that man is broken
down by hard manual toll, but his
health may fail because of his neglect
of plain and ordinary precautions i'll
regard to regularity of diet and rest,
or because he tolls in unhealthy sur
roundings. 1t is better in this life to
wear out than to rust out. Labor of
any kind, physical OF mental, does not
impair the faculties like sloth. indif-
ference or dissipation. The human
race was put on this earth to toll; Ia
Dor is the decreed healthful condition,
and it is very seldom that a person in
a condition of freedom will be called
upon to do enough work to paralyze
any of his faculties. With calm and
contented mind a human being can do
an astonishing amount of work with
out injury Intellectual labor TO the
mind is what exercise is to the muscles
"a strengthened and developer.-Min
neapolis Tribune.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
FROM DORIS.

The letter sent with this was found
sealed and bearing your name and adj
dress in the room where Roger died
yesterday. He had spoken Of you SC
often that I came almost to know you
That is why I am writing this note;
you We're his friend, and one so noble
as he must have noble friends.
thought for q moment I would ask you
to let me read the letter, but / could
not bear to see it and know that it was
his last, and written to another. The
trouble was his heart. Will you be
present? cannot write any more for
crying"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
The Musical Bicycle.


Charles Close Of Danbury, Conn, has
discovered new use for the bicycle.
He is musician and has the ability
not only to play, but make almost any
sort of musical instrument. A short
time ago he made an instrument that
plays ten popular airs better than any
hand organ heard here. Still the Dan
bury Yankee was not satlsfied. He
found that before he had wound or
ground out half the tunes of his Won
derful music-box he had to stop to rest
his aching arm. 10 overcome that I'M
pleasant feature he constructed a BIZ
cycle with a driving wheel in the place
of the usual rear wheel. The machine
was made stationary by placing it in
a framework and elevating the fly
wheel from the floor. A fy-wheel on
the organ, connecting with the bicycle
by broad belt, did the rest. A day
or two ago Mr.. Close and his wife cele-1
brated the fifteenth anniversary of
their marriage, and on that occasion
Mr.. Close entertained his guests by
mounting the seat of his bicycle and
playing the whole repertoire of music.
in his unique machine. The guests
got away alive.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27

especially in the manufac ture of India
rubber RI goods. The paint and varnish
industries take about 5 200, 600 gallons
annually, while the rubber industry re.
q l'll about 300, 100000 gallons
year.
But spirits of turpentine has other
uses not so well known to most read
ers.s How many would enjoy their
s g clls and other vegetable oils, il
they knew that they were adulterated
with turNentine oil? How many indi.
viduals know. that their medicines con.
tain spirits Of turpentine or that the
iniment OF ointment which relieves
their aches and pains is largely com.
posed Of turpentine From Gathering
Naval Stores. by Lee J. Vance, in Ap
pletons' Popular Science Monthly.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27

is represented in the accompanying IL
lustration. The tubular rim is secured
in the usual manner to the felloe, and
the metallic tread, consisting prefera-
bly, Of continuous strip of mild steel,
is attached to the outer part of the
rim by rivets, as shown in Figure l.,
the outer sides of the tread being en-
gagged by the sides Of bands fastened
in the place by clamping strips. The
bands extend around the sides of the
rim, and are connected by lacing with
the inner ends of the rim, the lacing
also attaching the inner ends Of the
rim to each other. Figure 2 is a side
sectional view of the improvement.
The rim, as will be seen, is protected
by the side bands, as well as by the
continuous metallic strip forming the
tread. a..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
Turpentine In the Arts.

Very few people have any correct
notion of the number Of uses to which
the products Of turpentine have been
put. Let us mention some Of the diff
ferent ways spirits of turpentine en-
tiers into the arts and manufactures
Many who read this article by gas
light will remember when they read
their newspapers by the smoky light
furnished by 1'camph This was
before the intro uction and use OF pc
troleum. Camphene is prepared by
mixing the rectified oil Of turpentine
with alcohol. Although Kerosene is
now 50 cheap, the rectifed spirits Of
turpentine is still used for illuminat-
ing purposes in some backWoods sec
tions Of the South.
Perhaps the most common uses of
the spirits of turpentine are those in
the arts. where it enters into the prep
aration Of paints and vs1rnishes and
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
Wilson and the Expert.

A good gold-dust story is told on
George Wilson, who owned the famous
Paris mine in Park county, Mon. Will
son was visited by some Englishmen
one day, among whom was an expert
of the English pattern-one who knew
all about mines and a great deal about
everything else, in his own opinion,
They wanted to see some of Wilson'S
gold, and hepanned out some very fine
colors for their edifcation.
''But that isn't gold,' pronounced the
youthful expert, after a critical exam
nation. "Me deah fellah, am a grad
uate of the English School Of Mines,
and I know gold when I see it, you
know. That is iron"
Wilson didn't say much. He just
leaned over and took the alleged ex-
pert confdingly by the shoulder:
'Mebbe it isn't" he said, ''but don't go
and give it away to those fellows down
at the Denver mint, for have been
selling this stuff to them for gold all
along. Butte Mountain.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
The Air Chise1.

Much of the rich sculpturing in the
new congressional library building is
being done by the use Of a new inven-
ton in the shape of an air chisel. By
the use Of this marvellous little ma
chine the modern statue is carved
quickly and with precision almost
equal to the old masters. OF course a
model in plaster is necessary, the COM
pressed air chisel being used simply.
for reproduction. The tool is not un-
like the dentists drill 1t runs under
about thirty pounds pressure and
strikes blow between ], 200 and ], 500
times a minute. An expert does ex-
'cellent work with this machine, which
cuts marble as easily as the carving OF
steamed wood. Inventive Ago
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
A New shoxxer-Bnth.

The convenient foldable attachment
to an ordinary bath tub shown in the
illustration consists of a casing, open
at the top and bottom, along the sides
and ends Of which is a perforated pipe
arranged to be connected by hose
with one or both faucets of the bath
tub. The sides Of the box or casing
are connected by hinges with the ends,
and the latter are made in two parts,
connected by hinges to permit folding,
as shown in the small figure
In the box are Jugs to support the
perforated pipe, and the bath tub is
also preferably provided with Tugs to
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
Electric FIat-Iron.

- - EIeCIT1C FIlt-lrOn. - . y
ployed there, and the result is said to
be entirely satisfactory. The current
supplied to the iron keeps it at an even
temperature, and thus no time is lost
in heating the iron. Another great adj
vantage is that it is always clean, as
it need not come in contact with soiled
surfaces, like the irons heated on the
stove. All that. is necessary when the
iron is needed is to attach it to the
moments it is ready for use.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
A Great Scheme.


The company which is about to builu
a line from Ishpeming to Marquette,
Mich, for the transportation of ore,
has scheme unparalleled in the his
tory of railroad building. 1t is the
supplanting of steam with gravitation.
AS there is a fall of some hundreds Of
feet from Ishpeming to Marquette it
would be possible for one heavily load
ed train to go down one track by the
means Of an endless cable and carry
an empty train up grade on another
track, were it not for the many sharp
turns around hills. Just how to build
a line that would have a uniform grade
of not more than ? per cent and yet
utilize the power generated by grayi-
tation were points which long both
cred Hiram A. Burt, protector of the
Marquette & Iron Range railroad, but
he has finally solved the problem, at
least on paper, and some electrical en-
gineers back him up. Mr.. Burt pro-
poses to make the road trolley line,
without power plant. Each train will
have car fitted with dynamo. All
the surplus energy created by gravita-
ton, as the loaded trains descend, will
be transformed into electricity. This
power will be used in driving the
empty train up the line.
shops where various articles Of mer
chandise are hung overhead. The two
main prongs Or tines have short auxil-
larry proEgs near their outer ends
which effectually prevent the string
which is attached to the article in
tended to be hung from slipping down
too far, the two main prongs keeping
the string spread to facilitate the
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
ILL.,.
THE TWO WOMEN.

Said Doris: "You are just as I pict-
ured you. May l call you just Anne?
How long they prayed. I did not
know you would come. [ could not
think who you were, standing beside
his grave, so beautiful and fearless. l
could not see well for weeping, and the
wind was cold, and my head ached.
!. Oh, the wan face! The black clothes
[ did not like the black. l wanted to
lie down there with him and be COW
cred up. The clay was so cold and
wet. Oh, how cold my heart grew!
Did you think they prayed long? l
was so cOld!' ..,
II have never been told how he
died." said Anne. Ill.
Il entered the library where he was
waiting for me-" Doris replied. 'It
was near twilight He sat by the
window looking out. When l came in
he turned, and his face vas pale. The
room was cold. Tie fire had gone out.
l never saw him pale before; l was
+ frightened, and cried cut He came to
reassure me. and his face was so pale!
sEIe looked at me long and anxiously-
so anxiously. I did not understand this
look. it was so strange. It hurt me be-
cause did not understand it. Now l
know it. was physical suffering. He
went back to the window and sank i'll
to his chair. Are you not ill?' asked.
He answered q little and added, it
I will pass But he did not speak at
all, or touch me, and when I,stroked
his forehead. he leaned suddenly for
ward, his face in his arms, on the
window sill, and would not answer me-
[ ran out to tell them he was ill.
When the doctor came l was told he
was dead. They gave me this letter to
send you, and tell you.''
'You did not wish,' said Anne, to
read my letter?'
Doris did not reply.
1T would make you less able to real
ize that he is-gone," said Anne,
gently. ~
'.Yes," said Doris. "And then it
was to you-not me-
:" The others face was suffused with
tender pity. She spoke impulsiyely,
and yet with. timorous boldness, as
one who ventures upon hazardous and
novel ways.
Doris, he loved you with all his
heart" %
HE told your
Yes 81
"He spoke of you so often, Anne
We shall always be friends
Eyes, always
You are sure he loved me SOP The
girls mouth tremored at the corners
''He did not tell me often enough"
He loved you dearly" said Anne.
''Ah, If you knew what sweet com
fort you give! You are sure quite
sure?''
HE loved you with all his heart,".
repeated Anne
Il will go, Anne. thank you so
much! l think can weep again, now.
For while, goodbye. Give me both
your hands and kiss me. Edward
Cummings, in the Chap Book
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
He Was Used to IT.

Grandpa Don't get scared, Willie;3
The tiger is about to be fed-that's
what makes him jump and roar so. =
Willie easily -Oh, I amt afraid Of
him. grandpa. Papa's the same way
wksn his meals amt ready
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
An Electric FIat-IrOn

There is now in operation in Chica-
go, a laundry where none but electric
irons are in use. Nearly one hundred
of these inventions are daily in the
hands Of the men and women EN-.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
Couldn't Do 1t Again.

The black-bearded pirate, with a
knife between his teeth, boarded the
passenger ship.
Throw up your handsv' he shouted
The passenger hanging over the rail
smiled feebly.
81 think I did not less than an hour
ago. he said, gaspingl Cincinnati
Enquirer
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
, New Pneumatic Tire.

A tire having 4 metallic tread Sc
cured to the tubular inflated rim, obvi-
ating the liability to 2uncturing the
tire OF other injury when the wheel
passes over sharp objects in the road,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
A Lifting Fork.

Ezra A. COzens of Toledo. Ohio, has
just received a patent for an improved
lifting fork, for use in stores and