Show MEASURES THAT ARE S STANDARD ANDARD much care taken to preserve erve them I 1 correctly A gallon Is exactly ten pounds ol of distilled water so eo when housewives say eay a pints a pound the world around they are mistaken the imperial standard yard which ta is the same as our own Is the distance be tween two fine lines on a bar ol of bronze bronie anta measured at 62 degrees fah ren renbert belt the bar Is kept mounted on eight rollers in a special steel sate safe 11 ID london the standard pound to 18 kept in silver allver gilt box contained in a bronze box the top of 0 which Is securely screwed down don and the whole placed in a special compartment ot of the sami same sate safe the german metric system took the place of more than twenty local measures the hesse darmstadt toot was less than ten inches the schwarzberg schwanberg rudolstadt toot mort than fifteen |