Show MEASURES THAT ARE STANDARD Much Car Taken to Preserve Them Correctly A gallon Is exactly ten pounds of distilled water so when housewives say a pints a pound tho world around they are mistaken The imperial im-perial standard yard which is the same as our own Is the distance between be-tween two fine lines on a bar ot bronze measured at 62 degrees Fahrenheit Fah-renheit The bar Is kept mounted on eight rollers In a special steel safe In London Tho standard pound Is kept in a silvergilt box contained in a bronze box the top ot which Is securely > secure-ly screwed down and the whole placed In a special compartment of the same safe The German metric system took the place of more than twenty local measures The HesseDarmstadt foot was less than ten inches the SchwarstbereRudolstadt foot more than fifteen |