The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-09
New Prison Notes
BY Bingo

We don't often get a show unless
we have the price of admission.
Blondy says that it is much
easier to float rumor than it is to
sink one.
Deputy Warden Backland is
firm believer in the old proverb that
two wrongs never make one right"
Mr.. Barron has been suffering from
a severe attact of rheumatism. Mr..
Erickson has been acting as guard
in shop ii during Mr.. Barrons
absence,
Jumbo, says that the pessimist is
the rankest kind of a fool. His
argument is that the pessimist oft
times suffers for that which never
occurs.
Doc wants to take straw vote.
we don't take him seriously though.
A straw vote is about as poor
sign of what actually is going to
happen that we know of.
My friend, the married man, says
that it is a very simple matter for
woman to find fault with man, but
its very hard proposition to find a
husband without fau1t
After Jumbo leaves. which will be
soon, Mac the harp, will have that
murphy pan all to himself. Mac
and Jumbo are at their best when
passing around the Irish apples,
70 settle an argument we would
ask the editor to tell us if Beau
Esprita means the same as Beaux
esprits, which means gay spirits;
men of wit-yeux, handsome eyes,
that is. attractive looks;
Poets are as scarce as hens teeth
around here. We have human pho
nographs. millionaires, taxy drivers.
lawyers, law students, ham pcliti-
clans, white hopes, ball players that
couldn't catch cold, but alas! no
poets.
The local baseball bug says that
we have the shortest baseball sched-
ule of any league in existence.
However, the baseball schedule may
be changed considerable when the
n. p. Is completed. There is plenty
of room for a good diamond.
Supt. Styles left on his vacation
recently. Mr.. Styles plans to spend
several days in Missouri and from
there will go east to Ohio where he
will visit relatives. Bob Henderson
is acting as Superintendent during
Mr.. Styles absence.
Our champion wrestler jeff left
for the Mill City during the past
week. Jeff told me that he intended
wrestling with an extra large porter
house assoon as he reached Minny."
This bout will prove uninteresting
to the readers of The Mirror, as Jeff
has all the advantage.
Now that the Million Dollar Kid
is out on parole, it is up to us to
discover some other man of wealth
who can tell us how to get lots, Of
money and how to lose it. John
D. Jr." is worth several millions of
dollars, but then John d. Jr., is a
pauper when, compared with the
NJ. ID. X.
An exchange claims that method
for planting es clashes and eyebrows,
has been developed by a French
surgeon. Pessimistic John,' says
that he would like to meet this sur
geon and have him experiment on
his pate. John says that he would
rather be beautiful than rich, but
this was only hint to those about
HIM to>remark that he was exceed
ingly handsome as it is.
Rev. Budlong held services in the
Chapel Sunday morning. He got
the boys very much worked up over
scientific questions and
judging from the numerous discus
sions which followed after the SER
vice, there will be large demand
for scientific books of all kinds and
descriptions. Rev. Budlong can
rest assursd that his sermons are not
forgotten by those who attend
Chapel service.