Show alib u N 14 hiir ill HIGH CO ot 01 NEW YORK fe feb 13 hw tho 11 alf teat complaint over the high cost cot 0 of living comes from the central park menagerie where it appears that tho monkeys mon keis llona lions and hippos are leading the simple life owing to the curtailment of expensive luxuries from their bill of fare the monkeys have not seen an OES egg in two months they used to get one apiece every day but now it would be like offering them pearls to fead them thein eggs according to overseer kennah the on only lux try iry they have Is milk and that with plenty of water in it for the sup ply t la but five quarts a day and here are sixty monkeys to drink it ten years ago explained mr kennah wn we could board a monkey for seven cente cents a day a hippo 0 or al le elphant for allty cente cents now it r oeta oats twelve cents for the monkeys me dollar for the hippos and two bollara and seventy gilve cents a day tor for the elephants the big tigers ind llone lions need from twelve to eighteen Ight een pounds of meat a day and the cost run runs close to ten cents a pound |