Out Of The Ordinary

China has only 100 physicians. New York has 3,500. One man makes a fortune to eight that become bankrupt in England. It is estimated that gold in circulation wears out on an average in 240 years. A Chinese firm at Mutte made a regulation assignment the other day, naming as preferred creditors flrms in Hong Kong and San Francisco. The town of Portland, Me., voted to celébrate the one hundredth anniversary of its incorporaron Sept. J. Many prominent people will U invited to attend. In Somaliland, it is said, was recently killed a specimen of giraffe whose body color was a bright chestnut mottled with very fine lines of a creamy white color. Central park, New Tork, covers 862 acres, of which 182 are in lakes and reservoirs and 400 in forests. Over 500,)00 trees and shrubs have been planted in the park. Scientists now consider the existence of a new element, argon, as proved beyond a doubt. It is an inert gas, forming somewhat less than 1 per cent of the air, and has as yet no useful task assigned to it.