Chain Of Human Bones

Cyrus O. Thornton, a farmer living a few miles out of Bolivar, Mass., has an odd wateh ehain. It is made of human bones. The chain consists of eight links, eaoh a trifle more than an inch long, connected with plated ring-s. The chain is about ten inches long and has been highly polished by years of wear and. glistens like ivory, says the Fall liiver News. Thornton secured the chain at Petersburg, Va., in 1864. He was a member of company E, Fiftieth iscw York engineers. A member of the Twentyfirst New York infantry made two chains while conflnedi in Libby prisoii, and om his release niet Thornton and sold him one chain for $50 in greenbacks. Thornton, has forgotten the maker's name. The bones were taken from amputated arms and legs, and it required 18 months' time to carve out the chains. For many years after he caxne home fTom the war Thornton wo re the chain every day, but for scveral years he has woro. it only on Memorial day and at grand army reunions. Some of his neigüibors, laughed at thö idea of the bones taken fram human bodies, and he sent the chain to a surgeon, who examined it and pronounced it to be of human bones.