Thirsty Lauds

The onurmous basin drained by the Missouri rlver absorbs, as Mr. Greenleaf has lately shown in the American Journal of Science, no less thaa eightyeight per cent of all the rain f.hat falls pon it, whereas the basiu of the Ohlo river absort only seventy peï cont. The an-ount of rainfall in the course oL a year is p'roportionately greater ia the Ohlo than iu the Missouri basin, and so the former river, alttough iuuoh Ihfi ehorter of the two, contri bu tes moro water lo the liasissippi tlian does lts KiRantlc rira] jfowlti z frnm thp wgt