The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-02-09
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AChicago alderman has gone into
bankruptcy, but that cannot be
accepted as evidence of his
honesty. He may have fixed his
price too high.-Denver Post.
Sandow, the strong man, has be-
gun to sing himself into favor. If
his voice equals his muscle, he
ought to make hit. - Rush City
Post.
The PRISON MIRROR has expert
enced a sudden change in politics.
All true reformers heartily rejoice
in the election of Gov. Lind and
the conversion of the inmates of
the Saltwater institution. Before
Honest Johns term of office ex-
pires we expect the criminal classes
of the state to become so good we
will have no further use for penal
institutions. - Maple Lake Mes
senger.
Well, Mister, we deny the allie
cation. We may be criminals, but
there are, thank God, very few
here against whom the charge Of
being implicated in politics can be
truthfully made.
The fad of Chicago step-moth-
ers in branding their step-daugh-
tiers with hot pokers is not likely
to become fashionable elsewhere.
Saginaw Courier-Herald.
What the public would like to
know is whether the laundry trust
intends to put more teeth in the
edges of that collar than the in
dividual laundrymen were accus-
toned to do.-Chicago Record.
Stolen kisses are probably more
generally returned than any other
class Of stolen plumber.
son Independent.
| Every man thinks his own par
ticular brand of politics or relig-
ion is a good deal better than any
one else's.-Albert Lea Standard.
Gen. Gomez, in his efforts to
secure from the United States the
cash with which to pay off his
soldiers, might take note that
Uncle Sam has straps under his
boots, and that the compulsory
elongation of his legs will be no
easy task.-St. Paul Dispatch.
Senator Perkins of California
wears cork soles in his shoes, and
it is possible that some of the
other Senators wear cork screws
somewhere on their persons.-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
The buggy-whip trust is evil
IDENTIFY a desperate attempt to
make the most of the last days of
the buggy. In few years more
there will be nothing in front to
use the whip on.-Pioneer Press.
AS Aguinaldo's hair is already
on end, how are we going to know
when we give him a real good
scare ?-St. Paul Globe.
Last Sunday the priest of st.
Patrick's church. Jersey City, said:
II understand that some of the
young men and young women in
this parish have been keeping
company for from six to ten years.
[ hope the young men will take
more courage on this question. -
The girls have evidently given the
preacher a tip "to hurry 'em up"
Minneapolis journal.
Klondike, with a temperature of
eighty degrees below zero, is prob
ably the place where the ''cool
Millions come from.-Blue Earth
City Post.
81 believe in expansion-of my
lungs" said the six-months-old
at three a. m. as he let 60 for a
few linguistic exertions for the
amusement of his beloved parents.
blue Earth City Post.
| A Paris, Mo-, belle writes to a
relative in an adjoining town as
follows: 1--WE is all we'll; and
mother got his Terrix; brother
town is got the Hupin Kaugh,
and sister Ann has got a babee,
and I hope these few lines will
find you the same. Rite sumo.
Yonr aphecionate kuzzen,-Cent-