The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-01-02

wood industries announces that food pro-
ducts consisting partly of wood are now
manufactured. At Berlin factory has
been built which is turning out about
two hundred quintals Of wooden bread
day. Sawdust is subjected to chemical
treatment, after which it is mixed with
one.third farina and prepared like ordi-
nary bread. The product at present
serves only as food for horses, but the
Berlin Tramway Company, which Is the
most important customer Of the factory,
is well pleased with the result. The
manufacturers say that wooden bread
constitutes also an excellent food for
man.
= The surplus wheat Of Kansas is
found to be superior to corn as stook
wheat crop of last year was used as feed
for farm animals. That crop has become
very important factor in the grain feed
ing Of all classes of stock there. 1t is
superior to any other feed for the fatten-
ing of hogs. Fowls prefer it to any other
grain and it Is unsurpassed as promoter
of egg production. The Kansas farmers
are highly pleased with their expert
ments in the use Of 1t.
- The w. G. T.. U. claims to have col
lected 100000 signatures to a petition
asking the various Governments OF the
world to suppress the liquor traffic. The
question whether there are really that
humber of signatures to the petition has
been raised. The ladies will be safe in
challenging anybody who doubts the
statement to count them and see. The
challenge is not likely to be accepted.
Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston's Wild
ow and children have presented to Con-
federate post at Austin, Texas, lock OF
hair of the General in gold case marked
ga. S. J. 1862" sash worn by him, q
sleeve Of the gray coat which he wore at
Shiloh, where be was killed, and his
military hat Of silk beaver, with plumes
and decorations. These relics will be
placed in the Capitol at Austin.
There seems to be desire to estab-
lish market for horse meat in New
York. Equine steaks are said to be
priced above beef in certain parts OF
Europe, and there is no reason why
saddle Of horse shouldn't be fully as good
as saddle of mutton. The horse is gen.
orally strict vegetarian, and animals OF
such diet are supposed to be the best 1or
human consumption.
-"As the law now stands" remarked
Senator Finley yesterday, jokingly, "if a
fellow takes drink Of whisky IN North
Carolina and fails to stop at the line and
throw it up before he returns into this
State, he lays himself liable to arrest.
Yorkville Enquirer.
DIR. Shields, an eminent physician of
Tennessee, says: l regard Ayers oar-
saparilla as the best blood-medicine on
earth. and T know of many wonderful
cures effected by its use." Physicians
all over the land have made similar state
ments.
= The first Japanese Christian Meth
odist) Church to be established in Amer
lea has been dedicated in San francisco.
The opening exercises were partly In
English and partly in Japanese. Bishop
Goodsell spoke.
- Including stocks and bonds the rail.
ways Of the United States are capitalized
at 100000 per mile. while those of Great
Britain are capitalized at 10000 per
mile, or nearly 400 per cent higher than
in this country.
Near. .Corinth, Miss, two young men
tried to frighten their cousin, young
girl, who was alone in the house. One OF
them was shot through the arm and the
other had a narrow escape, his hat brim
being torn of.
The citizens of lower Robson and
Marion counties, North Carolina, have
made grand success of tobacco. MIR.
Alligord Horn very recently sold lOO
pounds Of tobacco for 80 cents pound.
During the civil war the Union
blockade fleet captured or destroyed 735
schooners, 155 sloops, 262 steamers and
ITO other vessels that were attempting to
run the blockade.
NO less than dozen Tennessee men
are at work on flying machines. One of
them hopes to be able to give trial trip
at the Atlanta exposition.
DIR. E. s. Webb, Of Washington, Ala,
killed two deer at one shot and in few
hours afterwards he killed three turkeys
at one shot.
= In two years in North Carolina there
were l25 trials in the courts for murder,
and there were but three hangings.
lightning in December sounds odd
in news item, but flash recently killed
five horses in east Mississippi.
Christmas Day witnessed not less
than six murders within the borders OF
the State of Florida.
Engineers say that locom olives te-
come sulky or tired and require an ooca-
sfOnal rest,