General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4733, 8 March 1884, Page 4

General News.

A tower, somewhat like the keep tower of a castle, is to be erected on the south nab, Bolton Abbey, to the memory of the late Lord Frederick Cavendish, by the electors of the West Biding of Yorkshire. The tower will be 94 feet high and 15 feet square. | From one of the two or three copies known to have escaped destruction (perhaps the only copy that has ever reached this country) of Edgar Allan Poe's first tiny volume of verses, "Tamerlane and other Poems," published, or at least printed, at Boston, in 1827, it is intended to issue a limited reprint. Mr Home Shepherd intends to prefix a bibliography, a table of textual variations, and other particulars. The reprint will be strictly limited to 100 numbered copies. "Nobody on the stage," said an old actress, who used to be a reigning star many years ago, " neither man nor woman kisses from choice. At least, I have never known it to be so. It is not a pleasant operation, no matter how much the people might like one another. They are both covered with paint, grease, and perspiration, for kissing is the usual wind up to an exciting and passionate scene, and the contact of the faces or even the lips, isi unusually unpleasant. Any sort of an actor or actress, if they know anything of their art, can simulate kissing quite as effectively as if the kiss were real. No matter how much one is excited by the scene, a kiss invariably spoils the glamour of the actress. It dispels the illusion, and brings one back to earth. On that ground alone I always objected to being kissed on the stage, even beyond the paint and grease kiss. Actresses who consent to be kissed on the stage must want to be kissed very badly—that's my exper ience."

In order to ascertain if sheep frozen before getting cold or with kidneys in are more liable to become tainted on a voyage than sheep treated in the usual way, a sheep was sent 11 hours from the butcher's hands to a freezing chamber down South, and on December 21st another, also hot and kidneys in, was frozen; both were taken out of the frozen chamber on January 30tb, and cut up on February Ist. Neither showed the least taint or sign of decomposition, every part being perfectly sweet throughout. . A paper brick manufactory is in opera* turn in Wisconsin. Paper bricks would be capital things for building in the cyclone districts. They are all "stationery."