Watch Chain Of Human Bones

Cyrus O. Thornton, a farmer living a few miles out of Bolívar, has an odd ■watch chain. It is made of human bones. The chain consista of eight links, each a trifle more than an inch long, connected by plated rings. The chain is about ten inches loug and has been highly polished by years of wear and glistens like ivory. Thornton Hecured the chain at. Petersburg, Va., in 1864. He was a ruember of Company E, Fiftieth New York engineers. A member of the Twenty-first New York infantry made two chains while confined in Libby prison and on bis release met Thornton and sold him one chain for $50 in greenbacks. Thornton has forgotten the maker's name. The bones were taken from ampntated arms and legs, and it required 18 months' time to carve out the chains. For many years after he carne home from the war Thornton wore the chain every day, but for several years he haa worn it only on Memorial day and at Grand Arruy reunions. Some of his neighbors once laughed at the idea of the bones being taken from human bodies, and he sent the chain to a surgeon, who examined it and pronounced it to be of human bones. -