Show THE MILE IN VARIETY there are conr different kinds la in btag uh juh C tries alone english aspea speaking iding 1 countries coun iries have four different mils miles the ordinary mile of feet and the geographical or nautical nan milet flosa making a difference of about one seventh between betwee ll the two then th en there is the scotch mile of feet and aid the irish mile of feet four various miles every one of which is still in use then almost every counts country has its own standard mile says st louis globe demo crat the Boman had shad their mil pas 6 buum u u 1000 abes which must have b been e en dalbout about feet in length unless we ascribe sars a legionaries legion aries great stepping capi capacity city the german mile of today to day is feet in length more than bourand four nd a half times as longas our mile the te dutch the danes and the prussians enjoy a mile that is 18 feet long three thre and one half times the length of ours and the swiss 9 get et more exerene in walking one of their miles than we get in walking live five ve milis miles for their mile is yards long while ours is only 1780 1760 yards the italian mile mib is only a few feet lonker longer than tha i ii ours the roman mile is shorter chile the tuscan and the turkish miles are yards longer the swedish mile is yards long and the vienna post mile is yards in lengthy length so here is a list of twelve different pities and besides this there are other f measures of distance not counting the french kilometer which is rather liss less than tw two 0 t birds thieda 0 of f a in mile ile the brazilians Brazi lians have a millia that is one and ane one fourth times as long as our nille mile the neapolitan miglio is about the sane same length the japanese ri or mile la ir two and one 6 halt half times ours the russians Eus Rus siant is five eighths asiong as long ai as our mue mile while the persian stan darl dardis as a desakh four and a half miles long iong which la is said to be equal to the Para saing so familiar to the readers of 11 the league that unfamiliar isil familiar to readers of french and spin spanish ifie books varies justas just as does the milel in brazil it is three and four fifths miles long in france it was war three miles in spain it was two and two thirds miles and once on a time in Engl england iud it wai was two and a a half miles long lone |