Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 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 month* ago. After the beheading the foul was thrown down to bleed, but got up and ran under a bam, where it could not be reached. .Another chicken was killed and nothing more was thought about the matter for several day* when the chicken wa« found walking around with the other fowls. The headless fowl was cared for and is still alive, and seem*.to be in good health.- The food is forced down the throat in proper quantities. The stump of the heck is partly healed over. The fact of the chicken living has been a subject of considerable talk among scientific men. The curiosity is worth sesing, as who ever heat'd of that?—[LaFayette Journal.