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Men's Weight- Wo stated yesterday that up 
to that time (leaving the ladies out of view for the 
present) 4369 men had been weighed in Howe’s 
Standard Scales at the Mechanics’ Fair, and that 
their average weight was 146 pounds 13 ounces. 
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"y^ Tha mean weight of m?n in Belgium (Brussels 
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In France (Paris and the neighborhood) the mean 
x / /7f weight is 136.89 pounds. 
^ ' 1 In England (taken at Cambridge between the 
ages of 18 and 88) the mean weight was found to 
bo 130.08 pounds. 
It would be a good idea, founded ©n something 
mere than mere curiosity, to have a good set of 
scales used at Fairs in all parts of the country, as 
those of Howe’s are now used at the Mechanics’ ,'f _,X 
Fair, It would demonstrate where our “big men” ^ 
grow, and what kind of a formation and of climate 
is favorable to the production of “ men of weight 
in the community.” 
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