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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4538, 21 July 1883, Page 3

Jumbo gets each day half a barrel o potatoes, half a barrel of bran,- and about a-bale of hay. Besides- this be i» given . .ten: leaver* of bread, a whole loaf being titefl hifla at each mouthful. Besides this the visitors give him cakes, candy, apples, and fruit, at an, average of four or five * bushels a day. He can digest anything bat iaaiU and quids of tobacco, of the latter of which he is very wary. Jumbo costs to keep from 8 to 10 dols. a day. He baa two, keepers, Scott, who went over with him fromJKngland, being his constant attendant. There is a special groom attached to bis quarters. Altogether be has a pwrty good time. Mr Leboucbere, in the Hou9e of Commons recently, demurred to an item in the estimates of £1430 for keeping in repair the bouse of a 1 gentleman paid to look after the Hampton Court yearling. He urged that •■ the fioyal stud was a loss to tbeeonntry it ought to be done away with—there is no reason whatever wby tbe Quern should carry on a speculation ia horse breeding. I^ai^is ** present paying; for fire iosatSwoirer £I,2oo,oooay*ar-40per ' cent more than the cost of maintaining " lIJOQO Metropolitan police.