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Show Wood at a Food. Tho humorists nro right, and tho newest breakfast rood Is Indeed wood, pure nnd simple. An Inmate or an English workhouse has, tnkon to consuming con-suming wood as food, and tho erudite English physicians obsorvo that there is really no reason why, If the necessity neces-sity should, nrlsc, wood should not bo employed ns a regular sourco of rood, slnco It consists chiefly or cellular flbbr, which, with suitable chemical troatmont, may bo converted Into sugar. Hut unprepared wood can havo no value ns rood for tho human organ-Ism, organ-Ism, Inasmuch ns tho digestive juices are not able to doal with It. A certain amount of woody fiber Is thought to bo digest ud by thu liorso, by reason ot tho presence of a peculiar digestive secretion In his dlgcstlvo canal which Is ante to convert cellular tissuo Into sugar. In tho same way wornout shirts and collars could be converted Into food. I |