Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1883 — JUMBO'S DAINTY MEAL. [ARTICLE]

JUMBO'S DAINTY MEAL.

Jumbo eats each day half a barrel of potatoes, half a barrel of bran and about one bale of hay. Beside tliis he is given ten loaves of bread, a whole loaf being given him at each mouthful. Beside this the visitors give him cakes, candy, apples and fruits at an average of four or five bushels a day. He can digest anything but nails and quids of tobacco, of the latter of which he is very wary. Jumbo costs to keep from $8 to $lO a day. He has two keepers, Scott, who came over with him from England, being his constant attendant.

There is a special groom attached to his quarters. Altogether he has a pretty good time.— New York Journal.