Clearfield Republican

Phenomena of Rain.—Not less than two pounds of moisture are daily expelled from the skin and lungs of most individuals; and if a person happens to be flung into a particularly deliquescent stress of heat and exercise, he may contribute five pounds to the atmosphere within twenty four hours. Were this rendered visible every one would appear to be enveloped in a little cloud.

"I remember," says Watson "having been very greatly heated in ascending the ladders from the bottom of a copper mine at Ecton. When I got to the top, I observed by the light of a candle, a thick vapor reeking from the body, and visible around it to the distance of a foot or more. Yet such is Nature's wonderful alchemy, that the same effusions—the sweat of sea and land of herb and beast and man—may shortly reappear as the tender dew, the fattening shower, or the limpid gush of the mossy fountain. Reckoning the mean annual evaporation all over the globe at thirty five inches, it has been computed that the total quantity of water poured into the air would fill a cistern ninety-four thousand four hundred cubic miles in capacity.

This estimate, however, founded upon Dalton's data, is assuredly too low, for the mean annual issue of rain from the clouds all over the earth, is now calculated at five feet.—British Quarterly.