mmm 'V A Beautiful Woman. three months at a time. And when she rest, and she got into the rorner and sat miles,' an' so it might severe for anon of whatever undulations of surface may come to lodge, she steered pretty clear of crying. ment an' a mile-stone too." exist to keep upon the lowest ground. In a little white house on a hillside green, the lawcoming for a few nights you It was not until toward midnight that own ways Lives a beautiful woman as ever was seeu No doubt the prostrate position would in cee, and then off again on he she begua. They didn't get well in and Small Waists. In the sixty live years that she lived, I may these circumstances afford greater security They're more afraid of the almshouse quieted before that. But every now and say, than the erect! It happens not unfrequently She's been growing more beautiful every day. than they are oi hell, these folk. then the men would call: "Sing us to Small waists and early deaths have that animals are killed by lightning You do liot tehc\ it? Ask Susie, my bi-ter, So she got to be a pretty old customer sleep, Doherty 1 Where is Doherty? been the subjects of recent comments of under a tree to which they had She's the very tiretpeison that ever had kissed always come to this station. I don't Doherty 1 Sing us to sleep!' a physician of celebrity, and his notion hei, betaken themselves for shelter. In these know but that was my fault. Once I that the latter is the certain sequence of The storm set in hard toward midnight. And if she'd not nursed her by night and by *ase the tree is struck partly in consequence give her a pair of my wife's shoes. It da\, the former is borne out by almos: all It beats heavily here upon the office windows, of its isolation, and partly on account Poor Sue would have been in a very bad way. was one January morning, twelve below authorities of every country. Yet, no as you see, ma'am ana we got a of the presence of the animals beneath I can bt rag other witnesses TVIIOOI you may zero. She hadn't any stockings, only a matter how the physiologist or the physicians pretty clean sweep of the wind on account it. face, pair of old rubbers,anl her bare feet came may tale, women have always of the street running to the They will tell jou the samethey were the Usually there are several, and often through onto the pavement, and it was compressed their waists and expanded wharves. I sent down once to see how same cate. many of them assembled together, huddled pretty icy. suppos I might have "Has she lo\ ei Yes, surely! No less than their skirts, ind they always will, untii Doherty seemed but the officer reported probably by terror into contract one tle\ eu! lost my place for it. Eh? Cap'n! But public opinion pronounces for a heavy that she was quiet and he wished the rest She has seven ou earth, ani four more up in with another. The air, heated by their I don Think Doherty ever told o* me. figure. It has never influenced a fash were. They'd all set in, men and women, heaven bodies, rises above them laden with moisture, lonable woman yet to hear that the She grew to be a pretty tough case, Doheity he said, in concert, a-cryingout, "Sing us Her hair is &o beautifulfaded and thin, derived mainly from their breath. Venus de Medici had a large waist -she There are beautiful wrinkles, from forehead did. And yet there was always to sleep Doherty!" Who has not noticed the cloud of vapor t chin, has been told so ever since that faultless something I liked about Doherty. You Pretty soon she began. I could hea that in the early morning and in certain Her ejes are as charming as charming can be, image of female beauty was disinterred. see she used to sing. Sometimes her plain above the roaring of the storm. When she looks o'er her glasses so fondly at states or the weather hangs over a fleck She merely shrugs her shoulders and they do. And once or twice I've She beganDoherty beganthat that me of sheep or a heard of kme? The column draws her laces tighter. She knows very had a chap here who could draw portraits poormiserablecreeturshe that had And I kuow by her life, which has beautiful of moist air ascending through the well that if sh went to a ball with that been. of the rest. Scrawl the walls all over, if once been a woman like other women branches of the tree toward the cloud offers, She Is like "the king's daughter,"'"all glorious figure of Venus no man would ask her to he wasn't watched. One of the worst folksexcuse me, ma'am but she had in consequence of the comparatively within.' dance. So important a matter is it to cases we ever had on these bocks, his been on our books a good many years. Ah, you'\e guessed who it is! It could be no high conductivity of water, a favorable have a small waist that it has become a name was Gaffery Peter Gaffery. Killed And I've heard her sing such things! I other, passage of the electricity. A herd of matter of pride to the Austrian people, an officer, fina'.ly, with a horse-shoe. I'm Mire, than my beautiful, darling old never looked to be taken by surprise, as cattle under an isolated tree is thus exposed mother. and is mentioned in the court journals He used to talkLitin when he was drunk, Doherty tooK me. You're not surprised to a double risk also it is evident that the empress of Austria is celebrated and some other language. 1 thought it very easy in such a place as this at anything that ihese animals are in the opencountry for possessing a waist which only was Dutch but the chief heard him, and your fellow-sinners do. HEH LAST SOG less secure firm injury than human measures sixteen inches. This is a greater he guessea it was Greek. The fellow But about midnight, when the storm being, who cannot affect tue atmosphere nobility than even the possession of used to get the rest all ranged round like If you want to see the inside of a station was at its thickest and the cells were in a like degree.Chamber's Journal. sixteen quarterings on your shield, without an audience, and then go at it. Bat generally you'd ought to have been here last growing still, Doherty, she sat up and began which you cannot be admitted to they talked religion. It's irore nit:lit. It isn't often, ma'am, there is a to sing a hymn. She sang: "best society" of Vienna. "Sixteen," popular. This Doherty that I speak of, I night that would be suitable for you. I "Shall we gather at the river." therefore, is a magic number at Vienna. she had a beautiful voice. Time and Onr Knowledge of the Sun, don't think there's been half a dozen this My boy sings that at Sunday school, and There are many persoas, to be sure, who again I 've set up here looking over the winter that I'd want you round if you my wife she strikes it up the first thing Our knowledge of the chemical nature have as small a waist but they have not books at dead ot night, alone along with waq my daughter or my sisterbegging on the cabinet-organ every Sunday night. of the sun is now being as much advanced the height and contour, ana becoming an officer or so, and heard the call go up your pardon, ma'am as the best way I Doherty sang it all throuarh: by photography, for instance, as that descriptive fullness which the empress has. from a man somewhere down below. can put it to you to express my meaning "At the margin of the river, work of which I Washing up its silver spray, and the feeling that a man lias about such 'Doherty! Sing us to sleep, Doherty! Undoubtedly there will always be wrote in the first instance, We shall walk and worship ever, things. Sing us to sleep!" foolish mothers who make their daughters All the happy golden days," which deals with the chronicling and location And then Doherty from the women's sleep in their corsets, and many foolish Ever see out books? No! just look of the various phenomena, has, in Those are the words. I thought perhaps cell would hear them, through the wall, women who will always draw their here, if you please. Just caunt those its turn, been advanced by the aid of you wouldn't know them. Folks sing and she'd begin. And the fighting and laces too tieht, but the golden mean remains. pages. Will you? From theie to there. them a great deal in the Baptist church. photography. The increased power in the swearing and all the horrid noise A figure well, but not too stifly, We took in-,! I those in December, 1876, .Before you could have cock i a pisto 1 this direction recently real-zed bv Dr. would quiet down and, true enough, I supported a waist slender, roundbut we had in this one station two thousand lt was as quiet as the grave all through Janssen, is one which was absolutely undreamed think they slept. I had a Newfoundland not too small for the adjacent figureis two hundred and fi^y-two men and this place. The officers looked at one another. of only a few years ago. It is dog that went to sleep when my wife the grand desideratum ot female beauty. women. Of course, there's the usual All the men waked up. The now possible to record every change played the cabinet organ. Sometimes A large woman in France where women share of arrests. There's Mahoney, Jones, women all got together in a heap about which goes on, on the sun down to a that woman would sing enough to make have a taste lor the becoming in dress Sullivan, Pete Cartwright and Julia Andeison, her. The Cap'n said tome: Doherty's a region so small that one hardly likes tochallenge your flesh creep. She'd lost all her looks conferred upon them by Piovidence right under my finger, all airests. singing hymn-tunes!'' I said I thought belief by mentioning it. by that time. But she never sang so *vhen wears ample draperies, loosely fitting garments, All drunk. But some of 'em are vagrancies we'd go down and see and down we went. Changes under one second of angular she was sober. And sometimes she'd strike and a cornet which does her the in the winter time. You see it" was When we looked in at the gratirg, I magni'ude in the centre of the sun's disk up a pretty thing as clean and sweet as best possible service, for it makes her pretty cold last December, especially wish, ma'am, you could have seen these i can now be faithfully recorded and the hush a-by my own baby hears, ma'am, look and feel at her ease--no labored nights. And then we were careful about menragged, rough, red, drunk. Some watched from hour to "hour in other from my own wife's iips Somet.mes breathing, no unnatural redness, no fear our officers. of 'em taken awlul crimes. No, I don't words, chant.es in cloud regions 10 miles she sang "Auld Lang Syne" or "Home of suffocation. She is simply a large, Don allow kicking, and no more wish you had seen 'em. But there they square in a body 92,000,000 miles away Sweet Home and once that wompn picked beautitul object, instead of a pillow tied swearing at 'em tnan the circumstances set, as silent as a row of angels on the can now be chronicled. One of the advantages up a song called the "Three Fishers.'' in the middle, with a general air of asphyxia. required. These creeturs get such things iudment day, a listening to hear that woman Maybe you know it. You could hear her which have come from the introduction Large women should remember round among themselves. They have"a sing. One another, they said: "Hush all over this great building. of new apparatus has been the that no tight-lacing makes them fancy tor this station, maybe. I don't hu^h!" An one fellow said: "I used to possibility of making maps of the solar "For men must work, and women must weep, Look any smaller. Age, which reduces know how that is. We mean to be humane sing that song myself." He was up for lines and of the metalic lines which have And women must weep everything else, is apt to add on on this corps. That's our theory. 1 assault and battery. Badly beaten, too, Don't you ever sing any hymns, Doherty to be compared with them on a very the figure ot vs omen, and time brings on Some of our officers have a very gentle himself, about the face. He crept along I says to her one nightmore to laige scale. Thanks to the generosity undesirable stoutness. This cannot be manly way. Not that we think it makes the wall, I noticed, on his knees, to gei see wht she would say, you know. But Dettei treated than it was by the late of Mr. Rutherford, the distinguished much difference I tell you, madam (you where he cou.d hear her better. When she looked at me and made me no answer, duchess of Devonshire, one of the most American astronomer, who is making the had better know it at the outset,) I don't she stopped he hollered out: and passed on. Doherty never quitJ lost beautitul of women, who grew at the age most magnificent diffraction gratings know what your intentions are, of com se Give us some more, Doherty 1" her ways like other women, when she of forty years, as English women are apt which the world hss ever seen, and who but ladies come with so maany charitable And the rest said: was herself. Sometimes she was quite to do, verv stout. "How have you kept is spreading them broadcast among workers and curious designs, which it seems "Doherty, give us another psalm manageable and gentle in her ways. youi complexion so pure, my dear in science, we have now easy means a pity to disappoint bu I tell you the tune!" That night she didn't sing at all. The duchess?'' said one of her fellow ladiesin-waiting of obtaining with inexpensive apparatus, folks that get mio these places are a But one of the women said: men kept it up, off and on, all night "Is at the court of Queen Victoria. a spectium of the sun, and of mapping it hopeless lot. They're folks without a Come. Nell! Sing us to sleep with Doherty in to-nigut?*' Hasn't Doherty "By dressing at ease and keeping my chance. Most ot us have a chance, I on such a scale that the fine line ol light the hymns.'* come?" Sing us to sleep, Dohercy! temper," said the handsome duchess. reckon, in this world, some time or another which is allowed to come through the slit So then she began again, and she gave sing us to sleep!" even them poot devils. But by is drawn out into a band or spectrum it to 'em, one upon another, fast and clear, Bnt she wouldn't open her lips and the time they get here their chance is as half a furlong long. A complete spectrum DAftfcifiR FROk LIGHTNING. Heaven's knows where the creetur learned when morning cameit was a snowy dead as John Brown's body. I don't say on this scale when complete, (as 'em. At some Protestant Sunday scheol, morningand I let her out she tugged Under what conditions is damage from there's never an exception. Now there hope it some day will be though certainly maybe, where she'd wandered in at the a little, this way, ou my sieeve, as she lightning possible, and what are the was that creeter last night. Maybe, if not in our time,) from the ultra-violet, holidays. They go a good deal on account went out and said: Goodby, lieuten- means by which the risk raay be lessened somebody'd taken her in hand several already mapped by Mascart and Cornu, to of the Christmas presents. ant," like a lady. She didn't show herself or avoided? An isolated tree, standing years ago--if a lady with the way you the ultra-red, which has quite recently, We all got round her therethe men again for a long while after that. either upon a wide plain or upon an eminence, havf(I hope you'll excuse me ma'am, for the first time, been brought under our inside and the officers withoutand listened This winter she's came pretty often. is obviously likely to determine a but there is a difference in a lady's way, ken by Capt. Abney, will be 315 feet for a while. I don't think 1 ever In December she came nigh her fortnight's lightning discharge, to "attract the light- such as I think you'd have to be a man, long. This is a considerable scale to apply heard her sing so in all my life. Doherty term but she cleared out just in ning,'' to use a common expression. The and do a pretty rough man's work, like to the investigation of these problems had a fine voice, no mistake. If she'd time. Then again this month. It's been top of the tree is the nearest point to the mine, for instance, to understand so but recent work has shown that, gigantic been respectably born she'd have been a a pretty cold winter, and the woman cloud, and since the tree is a better conductor clea* ly asyou might.) I wished last night, as the scale is, it is really not beyond great singer, that woman, I fake it and seemed sickly, I felt sorry for her. She'd than the air, a line drawn vertically I will confe s, that there'd oeen a lady what is required tor honest, patient folks would have been running to the grown unpleasant looking, and sDe through it to the cloud marks the here. It did never occur to me to go ork.Lockcye in Ninetieth Century. opera and the concert halls to hear her. coughed. I don't think she had any shortest and easiest cour'e along which home for my wife. But I nev.r bring my So there she sat and sang. She set up place of her own this season, anywhere. the electricities may pass* If, when the %vife into the s'ation kouse. in one corner, with her chin upon her We couldn't find out. The Cap'n and I charged cloud arrives directly over this Here's the entry.the last one I mean. A Fire-Figkling Snake. hands, and noticed nobodv, but stared felt a kind ot interest, you see, she'd been point, the tension is sufficient to overcome See' straight on before her. She'sang- Near- on our books so long. It was only natural. the resistance along that line, a discharge Unless the Brazilians are guiltv of very "D Doherty, Ellen, February 2d, er, my God, to Thee," and "Depths ot But I do assure vou. ma'am, there will take place, and" the tree will be struck. large story-telling, the snake they caD 1877. Vagrancy" When I get time I'm mercy." and she sang "I heard the Voice is nothing to be done" for such a case. But if the tension be not sufficient, the the surucucu is braver tar then the buffalo going t count up how often that woman's of Jesus say," and "Love at Home." and Notuing whatever. I wouldn't look like cloud will pass harmlessly over. Hence for it is averred that, if a fire be kin*dled name nas been on these books But it all those. And all the men and the women that, it I were you. You can't help it. it appears that a person standing during in the woods, these creatures glide would take a good deal oi time. It's listened. And I saw the Cap'n Him that permits 'em, He strikes 'em off a thunder-storm beneath a tree so situated out of their hiding-places, dash straight some years. draw his hand acrost his eyes. And I'll our books, now and then, into His, madame is exposed to some risk. at the obnoxious thing, and scatter its I remember veiy well the first time she own it wn9 too much for me. I will, indeed. and best foi Him and them, and embera wish their tails persisting even On no account, therefore, should the came Don't know how I happen to. us, I take it, when il happens. though half roasted, until the fire is utterly traveler take refuse under an isolated tree There's such a lot ol young girls. An Now, last night, the 23d of February, To see her there, letting out those holv extinguished. If a man carries a generally he will do well to avoid its pretty ones, too. This one was more than that woman, she'd just made out her fourteenth words so trustfutly, as you might say, torch near their haunts, they pass and repass neighborhood altogether: but should he commonly good lookingan Irish girl. ma'am, as if she had as much right to 'em night consecutive and I had it hiid lashing his legs until he dropsit, be overtaken by the storm when on a She had a dark style and was paler than as anybodythatpoor wretchedmadam,it planned to send her to Tewsbury today. when a surucucu immediately coih* plain with no shelter near, the tree may most of 'em. I think it must have been was enough to break your heart to She'd be warm in the poor house, at least, itself about it and puts out the flame. A still be made to afford him some protection. five years ago. It was the first time she'd hear tier. I couldn't help remembering and sure of her rations. Cap'n and I both diminutive terrier of our acquaintance If he take up a position near it, ever been arrested. She took on dreadfully how pretty she had been and young, and felt glad ot it when we saw her stagger used to act on the same principle, although but not under its branches, he will probably about it. She hadn't begun to drink how she took on the first night she ever in. He said: "We've got her this time." his hatred of fire was a limited* escape unhurt should the lightning then. And what she was taken up for come to us. And I said: "Heje again, Doherty?" one. He had no objection to it in it* descend upon it. The safest distance had never happened before. It was the I went up to speak to her, for I felt a Pietty soon I come away up stairsfor proper place, and would complacently from the tree is that which is equal to its first time she said. Someways I remember, she unmanned me so, before the men and little sorry, too, knowing it was the last ontemplate tne parlor fire, and let itr height. To approach much nearer than I believed her. Seemed as il she'd I set down here and had it out alone. time. For you couldn't understand how blaze ever so merrily, without so much this is to incur the risk of being within break her heart. Hadn't any folks she But while I was sitting there I heard a familiar their fac-s grow, nor the kind of as a wink but the sight of a lighted! le influence of the stroke to remain at a said. Her'n were dead. She" cooped uo lull, and one of the Irish boys called out fueling that an offieer gets about them, piece of paper roused Tiny's ire and set much greater distance away is to place in a little heap in the corner on the floor now and then. "Give us one more, Doherty! Then ye him barking grievously and if the paper one's self in the same conditions of isolation that night, and sat crying all the night. There is the entry just as I put it down, can take yer sleep yerself." were thrown on the floor, he went for it as the tree itself. lt will have It wasn't till nigh morning that the other after so miny times. And then, ma'am," she began, quite low at once, deftly contriving to stamp out been remarked by all observers of the women could get a word out of her. If "No. 81 (she came in rather early)No and in a iaint voice and very sweet, and the flame without burning his toes. phenomenon that whenever a tree has I remember straight, we had. an uncommonly 31. D:Doherty. Ellen. Vagrancy she sung: been struck by lightning it has generally rough lot ot women folks on that Sick For we saw at once that she was "Jesus, lover of my souL" occupied an isolated position as one of night. I wouldn't have put her among Curious Cause of Death. pretty sick. She'd been beating about in She sung in this way, singing louder isolation, however, it is not meant that 'em, but there's no other way. I never the storm. The snow was all over her now and then, the tree is necessarily standing alone, but got quite used to that shutting up a From a Marseilles (Francel paper we I noticed she had on a clean calico dress. "Let me to Thy bosom fly, that it is not one of a numerous group. mng thing with an old one. learn that a soldier has just died in the While the billows near me roll, She stood just where you're standing, When there are many trees together, their military hospital uuder the following Well, so she was sent to th? house for Hide me, O Thou Savior, hide!" ma'am, while I made the entry. It took oliective conductivity is often sufficient And in tlve midst of the verst she stopped. singular circumstances. He had been thirty days and by and by she was back the snow some time to melt, for it had to cause an indestructive discharge of the The men called to her, and the suffering for some weeks from severe attacks again. She came of her own accord that sleeted some. She looked almost as if Cap'n said electricity. This is especially likely to of headache, which totally incapacitated time. Said she couldn't get anything to she was in a white dress, she was so happen when the trees are wet with rain, "Give us the rest, Nell!'* him from his duties, and eventually do. Seems to me she said she wanted covered. She had her hair done up for then their surfaces are covered with a I was rather glad he called her Nell forced him to enter the hospital. Here honest work. They do say it once in a neat to. film of water, which is a good conductor. just then for when we got in, wondering the next morning he was found dead in while. And it was a pretty cold nieht. I thought I'd go and see hei in the cell For this reason, the danger from lightning what it all meant and hushing up the his bed, and the being no assignable Site came for a place to sleep. So after myself. So I went down. She walked is much less after rain has begun to women, ma'am, as best we could, we cause for his death a postmortem was that we got pretty well used to her but very slow and seemed weak. "Tired, fall, than before, when every thing is dry. found her lying turned a little on her ordered. The result of the medical examination mostlv after she began to drink and alter Doherty?" said I. It appears, therefore, that the safest side, with her face against the ll,quite revealed the mystery. Jn the* like the rest. It don't take long. Their "LieutPnant," said she "folks used to dead. situation during a thunder-storm is in the man's brain was found a thick toffceft own mothers would not know 'em mostly ca'l me Nell. Nobody called me Doherty a midst oi a wood, particu arly if the hair, which science is of opinion had beeni in three years or so maybe, as it happens. till I begun to come to the police station. neighborhood of the tallest trees be avoided. there^ since his earliest childhood, and, I don't think anybody called me that till When Sir John Carr was in Glasgow In such a place of shelter the traveller growing with his growth, had ultimately Well, yes. Our rule is come a tortnight I'd been into the house,'' says she. about the year 1807, he was asked may take refuge in full assurance occasioned his death. The young man aparents, and you go. When one comes Then I said, for I thought I'd pacifv by the magistrates to give his advice concerning that he will there be. effectually shielded on being questioned, stated that steady for two weeks every night, then it her if I could. "Are you sick to-ni^ht. the inscription to be placed on from harm. The greatest risk of injury in his infancy he hai received a violenblow Nell?" is a case of vagrancy, and we can send the Nelson monument, then just completed. from lightning is undoubtedly incurred on the head from the iali ot a chimney 'em to the almshouse. Bat Doherty, sbe "Oh, my God I"' says shejust like Sir John recommended his brief by persons travailing across a wide and ornamet, and ttat after the braise was pretty careful. She grew smart that. Then she threw up her arms over record: "Glasgow to Nelson." Just very flat plain, because in such a situation had healed the mother remarked that the as she grew worse. If she got taken up, her head, and began to sob an' take on. so," said one of the baillies and as the they are the only elevated objects. To hair on the injured spot had turned inward, it wasn't for a long pull. Never knew But she didn't swear. She felt to sick, town o* Nelson's close at hand, might we lessen the risk, which may here be somewhat but thinking the matter of no iraporatnee, her in the house at the logest more than itake it% So we put her in with the! no just say, Glasgow to Nelson, sax seriouj, advantage should be taken she had pf 53 no attention to it- -5J& fen i&** i '&^mM&. jManiir^.1 .M^few.,rif5rtW%it mfrM.&ra Si JOLULL