Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-18

some talk among peOple WHO keep dl eye on the movements of the limbs O the law. It may have no significance whatever, and in any case the dealers here say they don't care, because the! make it point to observe the law land while they do this the more of ficers they see about their premises the better they like it, because under such condition 1t would be prac tically impossible for burglar to ge on the inside, to say nothing of blow ing up the safe.
 Tomorrow will be Easter Sunday and with favorable weather condi tions everybody will be out in his and her best garments. Special mu sic will be rendered in the churches and notwithstanding the talk abou indifference to things religious, thu different houses of worship will be crowded and many will not be able to find seating accommodation Everybody with the possible excep tion of the fish dealer Is glad tha the season of Lent is over and as { consequence the stores did lsai office business to-day among people who wanted to usher in the Feas of the Resurrection in a proper man ner.
 Down in the skyscraper conner cial district of New York the build ings have doubled in height an aver age of every 90 years for the last two centuries. They are ten or fifr teen times as high now as they were at the beginning of the eighteenth century. At Broad street and Elk change place, on the east side of Broad, in 1707, stood wooden and brick buildings averaging no more than 20 feet in height. To-day, 2OO years later, the buildings on the site of these ancient pigmies are giants 300 feet tall. Already, with another century beginning, the 40-story build ing is built to succeed the 2O-story ed- flee, the wonder of ten years ago. The picture presents curious history of growth-of increasing wealth and architectural daring.
 By considering the univerSe'S s size,' said a mathematician, "man can form an idea of his own littleness. Here is an impressive illustration of the incredible vastness of the uni verse: "Electricity travels at the rate of 1S0,000 miles a second. If we could board an electric current and journey at its speed, our train would require eight minutes to reach the sun. "A short enough trip, eh? To Alpha Cen tauri, the nearest fixed star would be q longer trip. Our train would travel four years ere we arrived at Alpha station. 'There are other fixed stars which going at the 1S0,O00-mile-per- second rate, we would only reach in q 2,0OO year journey. And still further on lie those black and horrifymg chasms, the inter-stelar spaces, which contain stars we know not how far distant, for our telescopes are unable to reveal them to us.'
 One of. the most practical and ab- solutely truthful bits of philosophy that has appeared in long time was recently published in Medical Talk on the wisdom of letting go" It says: If you want to be healthy morally, mentally and physically, just let go. Let go of the little bothers of every day life, the irrltations and the petty veXations that cross your path daily. Don't take them up and nurse them, pet them and brood over them. They arc not worth while. Let them go. That little hurt you got from a friend: perhaps it wasn't intended, perhaps it was; never mind, let it go. Refuse to think about it. Let go of that feel ing of hatred you have for another. the jealousy. the envy. the malice, let go all such thoughts. Sweep them out of your mind, and you will he sur prised what cleaning up and rejuv- enating effect it will have upon you. both physically and mentally. Let them all go: you house them at a deadly risk.
 Hereafter on Fast day the world may roll along harder than ever but the girls employed in lawyers of. fees will not work. They had that distinctly understood by their bosses this morning. The stores may open and factories may run and every thing go on as on any other day but these fair stenographers to dis ciples of Blackstone will not work. Here was almost the entire town out yesterday floating about in the merry widows, attracting the honest at- tention that is every fair girls due and there they were cooped UT pounding away at typewriters and making pot-hooks on paper. or copy. ing dry as dust records. contracts and briefs and demurers and mo- tions to expunge and strike out and no one could see their dandy hats. It was a beautiful day surely and the lawyers stenographers were as mad as could be because they could not he out. They had an under. standing with the lawyers this morning and the lawyers said il would be all right next Fast day.