Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1914 — A Mile In Various Lands. [ARTICLE]

A Mile In Various Lands.

Here a mile means 1,760 yards, but tn Ireland it means 2,240 yards, and in the Highlands it may mean the old Scotch mile of 1,976 yards. In Switzerland the' mountaineers think 9,153 the proper thing, even when, as it generally is, very much uphill. The Swiss is the longest mile of all, being followed by the Vijenna post mile of 8,296 yards. The Flemish mile is 6,869 yards, the old Prussian 8,237 yards, the Russian (Worst) 4,100 yards and in Denmark they walk 8,244 yards and call it \ stroll of a mile. The Germans have modernized their former different miles into the kilometers (less than the English mile). The Arabs call 2,143 yards a mile, while the Turks are satisfied with 1,826 yards and the Italian, shortens the distance of a mile to 1,766.