The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05

the citizens of Pike koAqs was ecus to that place for trial The event ot infficting upon him justice took place there yesterday and will received six months. It ia stated that additon&a charges will be preferred against nm and that his term of confinement VIII probably be considerably extended.
 will is q weIl-to-do farmer near Fike Roads and the people aEe at scss ,eS % he appears to have been guilty. it IS rsid that he will this year produce twentv hales of cotton, that he pos- sesaes raany chickens of his own, ana other appurtenances of the prosperous farmer.
 scrrNTIFIC ODDS AND ENDS.
 The horses of Iceland are shod with eheep's horns.
 Der of aged persons.
 During fast year 2s.2es vessels enter cd the port of London.
 A Hungarian washing machine makes use of electrified water.
 AS far as is known at present there are forty-eight kinds Of housenieS'
 The atmosphere IS Iree ot AniStDDSs at an elevation of 2.oo0 rect
 The Dominion of Canada contains nearly s,74s,00o square niles. A hotel is being built in Berlin which win be the largest in the world.
 ready speaker wiii utter about 7,S0o words per hour in making an address.
 There is said to be no record of the existence of the camel In wild state.
 creat Britain has the longest coast line Of any of the countries or Eu-
 About 60 per cent. Of the gold pro. duet of the world is handled ny GFea4 Britain.
 The Raffesia. of sumatra. is the iarg- eat flower in the world. It has nve petals. each one foot wide.
 An Indian stream, the River Kist- nah, 600 feet wiGs. has the longess gpaTl Of telegraph wire in the world.
 Some of the screws made for the use of watchmalkers are so tiny AVV.OvV could bs placed insan ordinary thample-
 PFtHAm y5CVE4Htf 4 ,,sts Tnrisoners have previous records against them than males.
 n acme of 4he Austrian schools eio- c,stion is taught to q certain extent oy the use of the phonograpn,. througn which the pupils are mace Lanalllar with the famous speecnes or histoss'
 A. Aurora. III, there Is frequently to h. aaen as many as s0.000 sheep at o,a fine housed in fattening sheds where they are gotten in prime conol- tfon for thel market. Herus numpek- IF, 7g] ](ld0 are to be encountered on the s..S .a-a,,ss ~ xbe far west. but at Aurora, ao many sheep in one bunch rignt m lie rafdst of a populous farming di9- t,s.t sa q navel sight. The sheds at fhis ,,,grg have accommodations for 1b,00O enmals, but there has yet been no oc- cason to tax the establishment 70 its full capacity.
 Two archaeological discoveries of ccnsiderable importance have been ', ,sSs recently. The excavations car ried out in the Altis or sacred pteeincts of olympia, near the great altar os Zeus, under the superintenaenee T,roYeasor Dorpfeld. have resulted ln tts discovery of interesting remains or ths NeoIithic period. including house. s,asaaIa and iInpIiments. Thus it IS ev- ,sent Yhaf Olympia was place of hu- rasn habitation more than 2,oOO years hsfore Christ. Tn Sparta the naemDers s,s the Brftish School have brought to ss.,st q large number of interesting terra cotta figures of the nftn century before Christ.
 4 rootless cactus Is to be found Tn .,,e aeserts of California. It is round, s,,s.ssct growth, rolls about about the Se.,a, tiooY of the desert for some eight ~ ,,ne months of the year. tossed St,her and yon by the winds which hioyS with herceness over all or Call- Strnia,s sand plat during those montns. vvbsr tf,e rains of spring start in: the ,isrt heefna business wherever rS hap Ken. p I'd he located and begins 70 put o1t all around it small shoots. wnien ts tnrn hecome cacti. exactly like the rsrsn+ plant. These young growths increase . in size raidly. sucking the yaoistrre from the parent plant ano Trors the surrounding earth. The roots ao not penetrate the soil deeply. out syress often over a circle whose ra- sfus Is, not less than ten feet Tnese roofs' too, are small, but practically inr,,marable, and they get every Dit of moisture and plant food to pc had in the territory they cover