Mercur Miner | 1905-10-04 | Page 2 | Measures That Are Standard

HEASURE8 THAT ARE STANDARD Much Care Taken to Preserve Them Correctly. A gallon Is exactly ten pounds of distilled water; so when housowlves say "a pint's a pound tbo world around" thoy nro mistaken. Tho imperial im-perial standard yard, which is the same as our own, Is tho dlstanco bo-twecn bo-twecn two flno lines on a bar of bronze, measured at 02 degrees Fahrenheit. Fah-renheit. Tho bar Is kept mounted on eight rollers In a special steel safe In London. Tho standard pound Is kept In a sllver-gllt box contained in a bronza box, tho top of which Is securely secure-ly scrowed down and tho wholo placed In a special compartment of the same safo. Tho German metric system took tho place of moro tban twenty local measures. Tbo Hesse-Darmstadl foot was less than ton Inches, the Schwarzbcrg-IludolsUdt foot more than fifteen.