Show the metric system it is provable that the metric system of weights and measures will be adopted by the united states 3 A gould united states commissioner to the international congress of weights and measures held in paris in september and october last has placed a report upon the matter before secretary bayard in this mr gould states that eleven countries were represented in the congress and that thi eo not represented belgium england and eulaia are committed to its support in april of this year another congress wili be held and the probabilities are that the united states will adopt the metric system A universal standard of weights and measures will then exist a matter of inestimable convenience and cical standards of universal application As for the school boy he will no longer have cause to weep over the compound numbers if only and girls realized this they would unite in signing a petition begging the president to forward its adoption or perhaps they would strike as is their pleasing and infantile habit now and refuse to attend school until the system was taught in place of the laborious one now in use |