The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-06-16

broke Out.-Delavan Herald.
If Admiral Sampson will leave the
cables alone and cut the ink ribbon on
Gen. Blanco's typewriter Spain's last
hope will be gOne.-J oliet Times.
The government should lay up the
warships and hire those correspondents
at Cape Haytien. They can sink a
man -ofwar and raise it again in the
same day.-St. Paul Dispatch.
New Orleans has just deposited three
defaulting bankers in the safety vaults
of the penitentiary.-De Denver Post.
A health journal is telling the people
chow to lie when asleep" If it could
persuade them to tell the truth when
awake, it would be doing real service.
st. Louis Humorist.
A Chicago police judge discharged
man who claimed that he got that
way through drinking Dewey cock
tailS.-DenVer Post.
The suggestion that dentist be
added to the medical staff of each bri-
gade seems to be based on the errOne
Gus idea that our recruits need assist
ance in cutting their eye teeth.-St
Louis Republic.
When Americans beg for a private's
place in the army and for an opportun-
ity to face almost certain death in the
navy, we have little to fear from all
Europe. We have an abundance Of
HobsOns and we may have many
Deweys.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Women are shearing sheep in Louisi-
ana and doing it we'll. This. is better
than pulling the wool over the eyes of
the masculine sex.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
n Florida man cut down bee tree
and secured several hundred pounds Of
honey, and in the top Of the tree found
cranes nest containing 40 dozen
eggs. He seemed greatly disappointed
that the tree didn't pan out a dozen
sugar cured hams and few hundred
lOaves of bread.-St. Louis Humorist.
Some men think the world owes them
living and they don't even try to COL
lect it. Such men are found in every
community and are always crying the
political parties down and bemoaning
the fate of all such as themselves.
They deserve pity; they should receive
scorn.-Willmar Argus.
"A Kansas man has invented a proc
ess of ageing whiskey in fifteen days.
He completed the invention in Mis-.
souri, not being able to keep whiskey
in Kansas fifteen days.-Faribault
Register.
We have seen good many people
who spent their parents fortune and
then forgot to name their children after
them, because their names were so old.
| fashioned.-Preston Times.
MOVEMENTS OF OUR POPULATION
Patients undergoing treatment in
hospital, 8.
Prison population June Is: Males,
sos; females, Z; total, SIP.
Prisoners received during the week
ending June IS, 3: Discharged, 5.
Grade standing June Is: First
grade, 361; second grade, 147; third
grade, 4.
Prisoners received during the week:
John Leonard, Hennepn Co., grand
larceny second degree, five years.
Harry Hogue, Hennepin Co., grand
larceny second degree, five years.
F. Anderson, Wilkin Co., grand lar
ceny first degree, six years.
MIR. ii. t. Hall, the veteran news
paper man, has bought the St. Paul
Trade Journal from Brown, Treacy
and Co. Mr.. Hall is more deserving of
success than any other newspaper man
in the Northwest, for he has started
more newspapers than any other man
in the country. The St. Paul Globe
and St. Paul Dispatch are both his
children. No one ever worked harder
to make newspaper success than he
daily paper. He has good thing now
and he will make it success. Here's
luck.
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