The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-01-26

that the opportunities for young men in
the Northwest are not all closed.
There are plenty of openings.
Xxx
An Indiana woman who lost her
voice nine months ago recently fell ill
with the grip and recovered her voice.
Her husband has taken to drink.
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have asked several gentlemen who
are here for larceny what they think
about the work of the legislature, and
the are unanimous that the legislature,
is no disgrace to the profession.
Xxx
A Battle Creek woman is being tried
for feeding her husband on ground
glass. 1t is said that one of the wit
nesses for the state will testify that
she heard the murdered man tell his
wife that she gave him pane.
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Senator Tillman called Senator
Knute Nelson Norwegian.
or words to that effect, in the
senate the other day. Whereupon Sem
ator Nelson remarked that he believed
that Senator Tillman was from South
Carolina. 1t is expected challenge
from Mr.. Tillman will follow. There.
are some insults that call for blud.
Xxx
The Associated Press dispatches say
that young woman who jumped from
a burning building at Passaic, N. j..
received nothing but painful injuries.
How fortunate that she received no,
others!
Xxx
A good many newspapers are now
talking about the uncertainty of Cir
cumstantial evidence. l would like to
call their attention to the fact that the
evidence was direct. Somebody COM
mitted perjury for 81 900 reward.
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"There is something wrong if you
have ravenous appetite, and still
keep growing weak" says a patent
medicine advertisement. You bet, that
is true, too. Those are the symptoms
and the diagnosis is "starvation." But
doubtless DR.. Jayne didn't have ref
erence to that.
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Evangelist Sam Small! has gone into
bankruptcy. Liabilities $4,000; assets.
in heaven.
DR.. Chauncey NJ. Depew brags that
he is the only salaried man that ever
broke into the U. S. Senate. 1t is true
that Chauncey has for several years
been compelled to grub along on
$4, 1866 per month. But he is not by
anysmeans the first hired man to sit in
the senate.
Xxx
l think it will be advisable to add
the word "eaganlzed" to our vocabu-
larry as one of the trophies of this war.
X
Some people concisely reply to Inger-
soils question "Why am l an Agnos.
tic ?" with the terse answer: "For what
there is in it," And in that respect, at
least, Bob and good many Christians,
are similar in their motives.
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The Car of Russia does not indulge
in so many speeches as the Kaiser, but
it is beginning to dawn upon people
that he will probably be one of the
great characters of history.
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Among the saddest things in the
world is to have a six thousand dollar
reward slip from your grasp. This is
true after one man out of
the six has been convicted. Who will
stand the expense which has been gone
into in the hiring of witnesses, etc?
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A foreign consular report says that
only American hats and shoes are
worn in that city. That would seem to
leave the inhabitants somewhat decol-
lette in the middle.
Xxx
Mr.. A. B. Allen, editor of the Jack
son Republic, is having trouble trying
to keep tab on the name of the editor
of The MIRROR. l might have trouble
that way myself only for the name
plate on my door.
Ky
The St. Paul Dispatch accuses the
Minneapolis Times of paying the.
young and aspiring journalists on its
staff SO per week. 1t is probably true.
And, by the way, the Times pays the