The weekly Louisianian., 1874-03-14

Mar. 8-Great Falls Ice Company-63,67l
pounds at 26 cents per cwt.
MAR. 31-Great Falls leo Company-66,51 81
/ pounds at 26 cents per cwt.
&sApril 23-Great Falls Ice Company-73,33 80!
pounds at IS cents per cwt.
May 31-Great Falls Ice Company-73,59:
pounds at SIS cents per cwt.
June 30-Great Falls Ice Company-96,5Sl
pounds at IS cents per cwt.
| Without stopping to consider the
handsome character of the contrac;
(which the Great Falls Ice Company
has with the Treasury Department
we proceed to an analysis of the
above table, that our readers 1nay
discover what it costs and how
much it takes to keep the patriots
in that Department cool. The total
amount Of ice consumed by the Sec
|retary and his clerks during the
year is 975,924 pounds, or about
Ass tons, costing $3,244.39. Omit
ting Sundays, 5000 pounds, or a ton
and a half a day, the year round.
This gives to each employee, GOO in
''all, five pounds per day, winter and
summer, to keep. him cool. The
gr~efrigerators appear to have been
i'm constant use, the employees appa7
srently suffering almost as much from
aheat in December, January and
February as i'll the summer months
These figures and facts are sufficient
Ito explain a great many mysteries
connected with the Treasury De-
partment. We can now sufficiently
account for the GOODNESS with which;
the Secretary Of the Treasury I'M
|'cludes in the contingent expenses al
charge of $A7 for the mileage of an|
|employe to New York, when the
fare for the round trip is $12; a
charge of $27 for seventy gold and
thirty-eight silver fish to W. Ell
Colem, another employee; a charge
Of $50 for thirty sponges: a charge
of $55 for combs, chamois, and
for the toilet; and a charge
Of $9,5S3 for horse-fesh for the|
and his clerks! !
ALEXIS, as AUTHOR.
The first volume of the book of
published by the GrandE
Duke Alexis furnished the press off
his country with numerous pleas
INT paragraphs, which showed AMI
unusual keenncss Of perception one
;he part Of the author, as we'll as ak
iberality of opinion astonishing inf
>ne OF SO little experience. Thst
volume of this work is now
,ut, and a few extracts are sent Overt
~ correspondents. Among thesef
8 one which comedies with the flat
ering observations of Canon KingsE
ey. Americans, he says, are born
'rators, and their luency Of speech
las oftentime excited his utmost
urprise. The greater part of this
olume is taken up with a general
riticism of American institutions
nd popular manners, which area
to tickle tho vanity off
he nation and compensate some-E
that for the Lard knocks dealt in*
dickens american Notes." The
men will find particular
leasure in the book, "Nothinga]
Guild be more touching and thrill
49," says this shrewed young man S
than the modest accounts whichk
1ese true heroes gave Of exploits&
'hich the ancients would have i'm
lortalized in tablets Of bronze" IT.
worth while importing a Duke orr
70 occasionally, if only to obtain
1ch novel views of modesty. It Isl
ear that Alexis never heard an ex-A
!uartermaster or Volunteer Com
issary on the stump. If he had :
3 would have modified his views
,mewhat. "a
Lord Colonsay, who was from
$50 to 1867 Lord Justice General#
Scotland, died at Pau a few days.
nee, at the age of eighty years.8
is name was Duncan McNeil
it'll he was raised to the peerage.
is career at the Scotch bar was
ong and brilliant one.