The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-26
PRICE THREE CENTS.

"A piiiho uouha uouoiiy iSto ioui
hours elapse between eating and sing
ing After the opera, she may eat
the little supper that is so highly priced
by all singers, not because of its con-
viviality. for it must be simple and
light, but rather because it can be eaten
with the knowledge that there is plenty
Of time for digestion. Sweets. highly
spiced food of any kind. and nuts,must
be carefully avoided. Different singers
use different drinks for refreshing the
throat, according as their experience
has taught them. Miss Clara Louise
Kellogg writes in the Critic that she
has found beef tea to be of great SER
vice. Some use gargle. LIE Franc.
the tenor, famous for his high c. favored
salt and water. The, singers of past
generation depended great deal upon
sulphur, and so do those of to-day. only
they take smaller doses. They take it
homeopathically. Patti puts a great
deal of dependence upon it, and so do
others who are homeopathists.
Perhaps not one in hundred can
tell otf-hand why point thirty-two
degrees below freezing point on
Fahrenheit's thermometer is called
zero. For that matter, nobody knows
The Fahrenheit scale was introduced
in 1920. Like other thermometer
scales it has two fixed peints-ths
freezing point, or, rather, the melting
point Of water. The Centigrade and
Reaumer scales call the freezing point
zero, and measure therefrom in both
directions. Fahrenheit kept the
principle on which he graduated his
thermometer a secret, and no one has
ever discovered it. 1t is supposed,
however, that he considered his zero
thirty-two degrees below freezing
the point of absolute cold or absence
of all heat, either because, being about
the temperature of melting salt and
snow, it was the greatest degree Of
cold that he could produce artiticially,
or because it was the lowest natural
temperature of which he could find
any record. The grounds on which
Fahrenheit put ons hundred and
eighty degrees between the freezing
and boiling points are also unknown.
The reckless improvidence with
which the forests of this country are
being destroyed IS likely to bring its
own punishment with it. Prof Sar-
gents report upon the present condi-
ton of our forests has been Published
as part of the tenth census. From
this it appears the loss from forest
fires alone amounts to upward of s20.-
100000 annually. The railways de-
stroy upward of 100000 inc young
trees every year for ties. The frame
houses which form so characteristic
feature of an American landscape.
use up the lumber from millions of
acres annually; AS yet no process Of
reparation has begun. We cut down
but we do not replant. The conse-
quence is seen in the greater frequen-
cy of droughts and floods along our
large rivers, the impaired fertility Of
the denuded soil, and the increased
cost of fuel and building material The
report shows that it is quite time to
turn over new leaf We should
husband carefully what forest we have
left. It is the part of wisdom for
every owner of timber tract to cut
understandingly and with reference to
the future. A good twenty acre tim
ber lot can be made to last for centu-
ries, all the time furnishing its annual
cutting of fuel for the owner.