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Show THB SIZE Or BRICKS. "If bricks were made of a larger sine, would It not save a great deal of labor In butidhig?" asked an Inquiring Anawera man. , "No doubt. aald a contractor, doing a large banding business, "but the atand-ard atand-ard else le by 44 by 1 Inches, and that It must remain. Up to alxty or seventy yeare ego there was a tax on brtcka, and In order to evade It the brlcka were made of larger and larger elses. These were used for cellars and other concealed places, and If you ever get Into some bouse In Brunswick square, Bloomehury. you will aee how the revenue waa cheated. cheat-ed. To atop, this fraud an act waa passed. In the reiga of Oeorre HI., rixlng the legal alee of brlcka. Early In Queen Victoria's Vic-toria's reiga the tex was taken off and brlcka may now be legally mede of nny slse whatever. But any ehange from the atandard else would bring about great Inconveniences. All calculations are made for building on this stendard else, and the London and other building acta have practically fixed 1t at s by 4 by S for all time." London Kxchahge. |