Show A congress or the chamber of com mores of the llrltUh umpire baa Juit been taJdlnImiilou JCiulnd Cut the lat day of the session a resolution was adopted that we hope to ace put Into operation both ao far aa It applies to Unjlaml and to the United Stales It was for the doing away of the present pres-ent cumbersome standard ot weight ° and measures and In England the abolltliu of tUe present system of money notation such aa pound shillings shill-ings etc The resolution says that the system of pounds shillings pence and farlhliiM la very cumberaome ca peclally when applied to the foreign trade and that the decimal system IIr dollars and tent I In vogue not only In the United States but also In the dominion of Canada la I far to be preferred pre-ferred It la I suggested that Ibo chant might ba easily made by making the pound equal to five dollara and the abiding equal to IS cents about what they are now worth In actual trnntac lion Aa to weight and measures the decllnal system In use In all countries < coun-tries but In the United States and lint Uh empire la I the perfect J system and should supplant the present arbitrary cue |