12 NOVEMBER 1870, Page 2

Paris has begun to eat the poor beasts in the

Jardin des Plantes (Zoological Gardens). Several buffaloes have been sold to the butchers, but the butchers ask enormous prices for buffalo beef.. We have not yet heard that the giraffes, or hyaena, or foxes have- been killed for eating, still less that the canaries and parrots in private houses have been resorted to. As regards the Zoological, Gardens, perhaps it would be well to kill the strong and dangerous. wild beasts before the bombardment begins. A shell bursting among the lions, tigers, and elephants might produce worse effects. by maddening these animals than by its own explosion. Happy the beast that dies by the butcher's knife, before food falls short, or the shells rain down upon the dens!