Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1911 — How Bea Birds Drink. [ARTICLE]

How Bea Birds Drink.

Under the headline, Where Do They Get Water? a writer In the Young Folks’ Catholic Weekly says: "When I was a cabin boy I often used to wonder, seeing birds thousands of miles out to sea, what they did for fresh water when they were thirsty. One day a squall answered that question for me. It was a hot and glittering day In the tropics, and in the clear sky overhead aj)lack rain cloud appeared all of a sudden. Then out of empty space over a hundred sea birds came darting from every direction. They got under the rain cloud, and waited there for about ten min-' utes, circling round and round, and when the rain began to fall they drank their fill. In the tropics, where the great sea birds sail thousands of miles away from shore, they get their drinking water in that way. They smell out a storm a long way off; they travel a hundred miles maybe to get under It, and they swallow enough raindrops to keep them going.”—New York Tribune.