The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-10-20

10 WauC0Q TO KNOW VINO IN DlaZoS was
piling up lumber at o'clock in the
morning.
Here as elsewhere, everyone is keep
ing an eye on the political horizon.
Even Nugget Joe" smiles as he reads
about the nasty things the politicians
are calling each other.
Chaplin Albert's discourse last Sum-
day on "How to be happy" was both
eloquent and instructive and listened
to very attentively by his hearers.
One of the boys who is stopping tenn
porarily at the hospital to have the
movements in his head properly adjust
ed, thought that "Old Nick" was after
him as he caught sight of a big muskrat
that crawled into his cell to die, after
being holly pursued by Trix and the
chief rat-catcher.
Trix has passed away. Last week
he was engaged in deadly encounter
with one of his old enemies and re-
ceived such serious injuries that symp-
toms of hydrophobia appeared, which
necessitated shooting him. Trix had a
long pedigree-all of whom were
champions. Years ago he was brought
to this country from the South of
Spain by John Deegan and presented
to the chief rat-catcher. A few years
ago he got into battle which saddened
his remaining years and caused him
to retire from public view. He lost
the doughnut on the end of his tail,
which was his pride and Joy. Sinbad
performed the last sad rites and
buried him beside his late antagonist.
Some of the boys at one of the county
jails must have thrown a big con game
into one of the prospective colored
boarders for this place. The second
day he was here he asked the doctor
for rabbits foot. He was given
some pills and told to take one every
three hours.
It's time to adopt the gold standard
when thieves refuse to take silver. At
Grand Rapids, Mich, burglars looted a
bank of about $4,000 in gold and never
touched the silver.
Everybody has heard of Dan O'Con-
nell. Dan is descendent of the
O'Connell's of Germany and is the pos
SCISSOR of mug that is worth fortune.
1t is this fact that caused the dime
museum people of Chicago few years
ago to spend big sum of money in
trying to locate him. Even the BARRIERS
here are becoming envious as to who
should shave him; for they take the
shaved off material to their cells and
pick out the shamrocks to use as Orna-
ments. At these times, when his face
is we'll lathered with soap, his mug
looks like circus tent. Dan has trav-
eled all over the world, and his career
is both thrilling and romantic. In
Chilli, while holding minor position
under the British government, he said
he was arrested and sentenced to be
shot as conspirator against that gov
eminent. The execution was to take
place at the coming of the next full
moon, but full moons were scarce and
it was only the opportune arrival of
one of John Bulls warships that saved
him. Over in Australia Dan was
caught in the coils of large reptile,
upon whose body he said was written
the following words: eff could see as
we'll can hear there would not be liv.
ing being pass me by" Dan says that
all the big snakes over there have mot
tos on them; and to prove his assertion
he says he still carries the impression
of the above words on his body ever
since he was in the grasp of that MONS
ter, which was over 40 feet in length.
Dan is witty conversational and
frankly admits that years ago he was
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suffered from that terrible shipwreck
in the Pacific ocean, in which he was
compelled to live on shamrocks and
crabs for 8 years, dime museum people
give him no rest and he is driven" to
the penitentiary for safe keeping. If
we can hypnotize the editor and make
other necessary arrangements, we shall
publish his photo. in next weeks issue.
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