Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1911 — NOT A BRITISH UNIT IN IT [ARTICLE]

NOT A BRITISH UNIT IN IT

Irishman Would Not for a Minut* Allow th* Possibility of Such a Thing. Geoyge Mockler has just returned from an investigation of what coal 1* costing some of the other cities. He brought this story from Baltimore: An Irishman there inherited a coal mine up In the state. He Immediately entered the lists for one' of the big coal contracts and went around to say a good word for his coal. The man who was letting the contract heard him a moment, and then interrupted with: “That’s all right, but how about British thermal units?” The other, being new to the coal business, did not know that coal is rated now according to the British thermal units In tests. “Phat’s that!” he said. “How many British thermal units are there In your coal?” The Irishman blinked bis eye and snorted a bit ' “British thermal units Is It?” he said. “Why there ain’t wan in it” —St Louis Post-Dispatch.