FOOD FOR ANIMALS. tATTKHING HORSES FOB THE LIONS, TIGERS AND PANTHERS AT THE ZOO [Philadelphia Times.] Visitors to th<« Zoological Gardens have noticed down in the lower end of the grounds, a little to the right of the place where the polar bears are kept, a line of low, rambliug buildings built against the fence which separates the grounds from a long strip of land lying between the Gardens and the New York branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The last of these buildings is a good deal better than the rest, being "a tall, close, frame shanty of ?ine boards aDd having a door to it 'ha others, smaller, more uneven and without any doors, are nothing more than mere sheds or stalls. Always in front of them will be seen a pile of clover hay, with half a dozen, more or less, sorry-looking horses, the sole oc cupants of the sheds, feeding thereon. Jin inspection of these animals will usually show a plethora of defects iu the way of damaged eyes or spavined joints or broken wind, all, in the ma jority of instances, being the regular accompaniments of old age and being but another way of describing a horse broken down by weight of years and past his stage of usefulness. Occa sionally younger animals may be seen in the stalls, but these are also suffer ing from some affliction of body or limb and stand on the same footing as the rest. FOOD FOR THE BEASTS. These horses, once they get under the above described sheds, have all one common destiny—they are to be killed and dressed as food for the ani mals of the Zoological Garden. The amount of food consumed daily by the animals, large and small, is no little. The chief meat-eating animals are the lions, tigers, leopards, pumas and hyenas. Altogether they consume about 175 pounds of horse meat a day. Four horses a week is the usual aver age in keeping up the supply of these animals alone. Next in point of heavy feeding come the elephants. Their chief food is hay, of which it takes about four times as much to keep an elephant as it does to keep a horse, th ■ elephant eating about 100 pounds of hay every twenty-four hours. And in order to keep up his appetite the hay must be the best going, being invaria bly timothy of the best grade. Other animals that eat hay are the giraffes, the camels, the deer, zebra and differ ent animals of the cattle species. Most all these are fed on what is known as mixed bay, timothy and clover, which is about twenty per cent, cheaper than the timothy alone. Two wagon loads of each per week is about the amount used. Each wagon load is supposed to contain 'O,OOO weight, or a ton «nd a half. The price for timothy is about S2O per ton, which makes the three tons equal to s