St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-02
FLOUR CITY MILLDUST.
4 Bad Blaze in Minneapolis. A
Worman's Handsome House
Burned.
The Press Club Opens Its New Rooms
Also Bottles and Cigar
Boxes.
MINNEAPOLIS TOPICS.

While yesterday was not so severe day as
when the Academy of Music was offered up
On the altar of fire, the crisp air was, never
sheless, such as TO emphasize the fact that q
hreman's lot is not happy one. TheFe al
ways may be found those charitable beings
who are disposed to regard the duties Of the
lads Of the nozzle aud ladder as snaps, ]"
in the weeks which pass without fire; but
one such effort as yesterday redeems month
OF idleuess. Ask the neighbors of the Wor-
mans If this is not so, aud then visit the
boys in blue while they are recovering from
the effects Of Yesterdays work In the on
ward march of scientific investigation and
discovery it is to be hoped that the day will
come when fires may be successfully sub
dued by means other than those now en-
ployed; and then the zero mark will not be so
powerful a factor in fire fighting:
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''The steel nail has not settled to its per-
mauent place in the northwest" remarked
prominent iron man yesterday. "There are
many questions which must be definitely de-
ermined upon yet. Iron and steel men
must arrange the comparative prices AID
then they must settle the matter OF weight.
The steel nail outweighs the iron and fewer
Of them, at the same price, can be bought
for the same money. Besides, in our severe
winters, the heads Of the steel nails
are very liable TO ly of under the blows of
the hammer When the labor troubles,
that this summer Is sure to bring, have
been definitely settled in the east, We will be
prepared 10 consider the steel nail, and hardly
until then"
The Minneapolis Press club is fortunate in
having secured permanent and satisfactory
quarters in Syndicate block, and fortunate
in having friends who emembered how to
make the opening meeting pleasant. The
newspapers have large clientele in Mime
apois, and among them are tAose who know
the moral effect Of au organization Of news
paper writer's iuures directly 70 their benefit
1t is by q comparison OF views and ideas that
the members Of the Press club hope to ap-
proaeh that degree Of perfection as viii most
highly commend their labors to the public
approval
One Of the philosophers of the Journal has
undertaken to show the Minneapolis public
how little be knows OF that rapidly increasing
article Of commerce and deception known as
butterine. Butterine, as such, is ell right In
its place, and II is only wrong when south
town landlady fOists il upon her unsuspcet-
ing boarders rs COW butter, or an uuscrupu-
lous dealer places It 90 the market as butter
against tie product OF an unsophisticated
dairymaB. Imitation seal skin Is legiti-
mate article Of traffic, and so is oroide;
but when the one Is labeled
seal and the other gold the
trouble and deception begin. ButterIne is
made Of pure neutral lard deaf lard), milk,
oleo oil aud other harmless ingredients,
sailed 10 suit the taste, and is perfectly
wholesome Gum drops, when pure, are
made OF the hoofs Of cattle aud they. too,
are perfectly wholesome. Cheap cigars con-
tain brown paper, shoe strings, stubs Of
pencils and other delectahle substances not
labeled Thus 1t goes The Washington av-
enue grocer sells butterine for butterine, and
81 is all right. But II be sells itas butter and
it should be found out (Which II never is),
up goes a wall Of virtuous indignation, while
the Nicollet avenue cigar man may sell brown
paper cigars with perfect impunity. Some
states have made 1t penal offense to sell
unlabcied butterine; yes, and some are now
talking Of preventing, by act of legislation,
life insurance agents from running at large
uulabeed.
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II is said a Minneapolis geoogst has de-
cidcd that natural gas underles the city, but
the story is without an accompanying atfi-
davlt. Il usually happens that nature, gen
orally not lavish with her gifts, has deposited
this great storehousc Of fuel only where the
other Iucl-coal-is also 10 be found, but II
this case should prove an exception, what
resolution II would work in The mills aud
factories Of MINNEAPOLIS A two inch pipe
from the reservoir Of the precious vapor
would furnish sufficient heat for steam
enough to run the eutire Pillsbury or Wash
burn milling system; while one OF the great
geyers would spout forth the fuel to run
engines Of the aggregate horse power OF st.
Anthony falls at Ag water! Il would heat
aud hghI lie entire city Of Minneapolis, be-
sides forging lie iron, melting its glass and