Show fl f 4 A standard measure after being ten years in the mak ing there has just been deposited in the government standard weights and measures strong room a new standard yard measure it Is made of 90 forts of platinum and ten of abich when combined are not upset by either heat or cold after the belabor ate marking it was submitted to a number of tests coming through all with high every year of the next ten years it will be examined and it it varies by the millionth part of an inch it will be consigned to the rubbish heap otherwise it will be come a standard london news A woman egotism has reached the limit it when she walks out she imagines that all the men going in the same direction are following her |