Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1908 — Miles and Miles. [ARTICLE]

Miles and Miles.

“Will we never drop miles for kilometers?” said a mathematician. “Miles are very confusing. A kilometer the world over Is a kilometer, but a mlleln America Is 1,760 yards, while In Sweden It is 11,703 yards, and In China it is 629 yards. The Bohemians go In tor a long mile. So do the Danes, the Hungarians, the Poles and the Swiss. If you walk three miles a day among these people, you have done pretty well. You have covered about fifteen of your own miles. “There are, in fact, thirty-seven kinds of miles. It would take eighteen erf the shortest to equal one of the longest The rest vary In size between those two extremes.—New York Press.