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Show . The Life of a Drop of Water. A German professor named Meinnr-dus Meinnr-dus has amused himself with calculating calculat-ing bow long a tlrop of water stays in the ocean beforo it is evaporated and how soon It returns to tho sen. Calculatinghe Calcu-latinghe does not say how the total evaporation from tho surface of the ocean and esUmnting the total volume of water in the oceans, a drop of water entering the ocean will stay there 3,460 years provided it awnits its turn o be evaporated. However, tho professor admits thnt the surface wnter stands a good chnncc of getting abend of its turn. The average stay out of the ocean Is ouly twelve days before it hn.n fallen in rain aud run back again to the ea. Roitou Globe. |