Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1879 — A HEADLESS CHICKEN. [ARTICLE]

A HEADLESS CHICKEN.

* There is a living curiosity on exhibition in this city, which consists of a live chicken without a head. As the story goes, the chicken’s head was chopped off with an ax at some point in Illinois about three months ago. After the beheading the foul was thrown down to bleed, but got up and ran under a barn, where it could not be reache ?. Another chicken was killed and nothing more was thought about the matter for several days when the chicken was found walking around with the other fowls. The headless fowl was cared for and is still alive, and seems to be in good l health. The food is forced down the throat in proper quantities. The stump of the neck is partly healed over. The fact of the chicken living has been a subject of considerable talk among scientific men. - The curiosity is worth seeing, a* who ever heard of- that?—[LaFayette Journal. A Washington dispatch says that the bank circulation incrased $200,000 during the first week of August.