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STORRS the latest telegraphic reports the weather-forecaster is able to predict all large storms with admirable and increasing accuracy. Thus the usual storm-track in the United States is to the east and over the Great Lakes to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. There is a great variety of local storms, as the typhoon of the China Sea and the waters about the Philippine Islands, the windstorms of Arabia, the blizzards or heavy snow-storms accompanied by driving winds, tornadoes etc. The entire subject of storms must, however, be yet considered as an imperfectly understood department of the imperfectly developed but highly important science of meteorology. See.  Storrs, Richard Salter, an American clergyman, was born at Braintree, Mass., RICHARD S. STORRS Aug. 21, 1821. He studied at Amherst College and Andover Theological Seminary. He was pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1846-99, having had one of the longest pastorates in the city. For a number of years he was one of the editors of The New York Independent, and was president of the American Board of Missions. He was noted for his eloquence and beautiful style in the pulpit and his aptness and readiness in occasional addresses, and ranked as one of the first pulpit-orators in America. His more important publications include a work on The Divine Origin of Christianity, The Puritan Spirit, Bernard of Clairvaux and Forty Years of Pastoral Life. He died on June 5, 1900.  Sto′ry, Joseph, an American jurist, was born at Marblehead, Mass., Sept. 18, 1779. He was a graduate of Harvard. He was in the legislature in 1805, and in 1808 entered Congress. He was made a judge in the supreme court of the United States in 1811, holding the position for 34 years. In 1829 he became a professor in Harvard Law-School. He was an authority on all legal questions in the United States, his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, The Conflict of Laws and Equity Jurisprudence being very valuable. He died at Cambridge, Mass., Sept 10, 1845. See Life by his son.  Story, William Wetmore, American sculptor and poet, was born at Salem, Mass., Feb. 19, 1819, son of Joseph Story, and after graduating at Harvard studied law and was admitted to the bar. Among his works as a lawyer are Reports of Cases, Treatise on the Law of Contracts, The Law of Sale of Personal Property with The Life of Story. In 1848 he abandoned law for sculpture, and W. W. STORY to assist him in his study of fine models he removed to Rome, Italy, where he afterwards chiefly resided, until his death at Vallombrosa on Oct. 7, 1895. His allegorical statues of Cleopatra, Medea, The African Sibyl and Semiramis; statues of George Peabody, Edward Everett and Francis Scott Key; and busts of Lowell, Bryant, Theodore Parker, Josiah Quincy and his father represent the bulk of his achievement in art. In literature he published poems, essays and rambles in Italy. The chief of these works which show his culture and sympathies are Roba di Roma, Conversations in a Studio, The Castle of St. Angelo and the Evil Eye, Poems, Excursions in Art and Letters and A Poet's Portfolio. He died in 1895.  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, an American writer, was born at Litchfield, Conn., June HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 14, 1811. She belonged to the celebrated Beecher family, being the daughter of Dr. Lyman Beecher and the sister of Henry Ward Beecher. She was noted as a child for her fondness for writing, and at 12 astonished her teachers with a composition on the question: Can the immortality of the soul be proved by the light of nature? Moving to Cincinnati with her father's family, she there married Calvin E. Stowe, then a professor in Lane Theological Seminary. In that region and through the servants employed in her own family she learned much of the evils of slavery. Her husband's connection with many prominent abolitionists; his knowledge of the workings of “the underground railroad;” a pro-slavery riot in the city, when many of the intended victims were concealed and fed by herself and her friends; a sojourn of a brother in the south; and his observations on the slave-trade all helped to fit her for her work. Her first published volume was made up of sketches written for the papers and periodicals of the day, and was called