The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-11-17

The New York Central Park has cost, up to lst
January last, 50, 763, S95.9S. But the increase of
the assessed value of three wards surrounding it,
since the Park was commenced. is S34, 900, 395.
There is no park in the world that surpasses il in
beauty. Last year over seven and a half millions of
people visited it.
ECCENTRICITIEs OF SINGLE LIFE Al old bachelor
not a hundred miles from Middleboro', invited a
young lady from n neighboring city to take refresh
ments at a saloon. Without consulting the preference
Of the fair guest, two stews were ordered, and upon
their appearance smoking hot, the lady declining to
partake saying she never eat s'ews." her com
panion made way with her share and his own,
" cleaned the plate and licked the platter clean, -
and then escorted his hungry friend to her home.
What a monster !-.NsW Bedford Mercury.
An engineer employed in a mill in Philadelphia,
made an experiment on Saturday last of a somewhat
perilous nature. He had been told that a steel spring
might be edectually tempered if, while red hot, it
were immersed liz petroleum. He heated the withe
Of steel, and plunged 1t into n bucketfull Of coal oil.
The result was an explosion, and the flames fast
spreading toward the room, the astounded and partly
burned engineer set the donkey engine to work, and
adjusting the hose. the fire was soon extinguished.
The DUSDERBURG.-The immense United States
ram Dunderburg, constructed by Mr.. William H..
Webb, at his yard on the East River, went down the
Bay yesterday, and returned and anchored in the
North River. Her immense size and tremendous
capabilities for destroying an adversary are now
more capable of being appreciated. lying, as she
does, all clear to the view from both shores.
NUN AND NblNE-Df. JOity. VINO, In spite OF his
name is a great authority in temperance aud in stat
istics, declares from a careful collation. Of the facts
and records of rum and crime, that:
"ln every country the statistics Of the amount OF
alcohol imbibed precisely correspond with the NUN
Der Of Judicial sentences recorded in law reports of
the year as well as with the number of poor, of beg
gars, of vagabonds of divorced husbands and wives.
OF idiot rickety children, of suicides, murders, and Of
%epileptics and lunatics inscribed on State registers
This declaration is made in a report that he has
just sent up to the Academy Of Medicine.
Mrs. Beecher Stoves new cottage home at Hart
ford, CT, is described as having nothing in location
or appearance TO attract attention or indicate it as
the home of genius. You cross the railroad and pass
down q narrow lane to reach it. 1t is a two-sto-y
brick house, in the cottage style, which sits very low
with a factory and ice house adjoining. The posts of
the old rail fence have not been removed. The trees
are without uniformity or culture, and the lawn is
crowded. with a luxuriant crop of rank weeds, and
The whole style Of the thing is untidy and neglected.
In the neighbOrhOod are elegant houses, splendid
locations, trees and shrubbery kept in exquisite taste.
contrasting strongly in appearance with the cottage
house Of one Of the first prose writer's of the age.