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Show i AS THE WOULD! I REVOLVES I NEW SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS. Attempt Being Made In England to Revise the Standard. An attempt la being made In England Eng-land lo nvlae thn standard of weights for commercial purposes. Tho susr-Kcatlon susr-Kcatlon la to cream new weights ol fifty pounda. twenty dvo pounda or twenty pounda. ten pounda and fire pounds avoirdupois reapwtlvelr. to run concurrently with tho hundredweight hundred-weight serleo of weights. Tho corn, cotton and tobacco tradea havo adopted adopt-ed tho cental syaU-m, but It Is necessary neces-sary to mako up thn cental to use tho nflyalx pound and tho twenty-one pound weight. If WO seta of weights are uaed. ono baaed on tho hundredweight hundred-weight and the other on tho cental, confusion can bo avoided by making; tho new welghla or otherwise plainly distinguish between the two aeries of weights. Tho proposal la being enthusiastically en-thusiastically supported and there seema evnry possibility of Its coming Into voguo. |