Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1891 — Expensive Quadrupeds. [ARTICLE]

Expensive Quadrupeds.

The prince of Baroda, India, keeps a troop of war elephants that carry from six to eight sharpshooters and have keen carefully trained to maintain their steadiness in the midst of deafening noises. They are not easily scared, even by a wound, and the chief objection to their employment in the British army is the cost of maintaining a brigade of monsters devouring an average of sixty poutids of vegetables a day.—[New York Voice