Facts Scientific

Wk lose two pounds of water In twenty-four hours by perspiration, and the more wc perspire the eooler we become. Tuk number uf eggi in a six-pound eel in November is fully nine million; under the mieroscopc they me asure eighty to the linear inch. , The Sooiete cl'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale of Paris has awarded a prize of twenty-five huudred francs to Henry M. Howe, of Boston, son of Mrs. Julia Ward llowe, for a treatise on the metallurgy of steel.