A Funeral Sensation

A most remarkable instance of a supposed corpse having been found to possess signs of animation, and really beitig restored to life aíter lying on ice for three days, has just transpired at Yonkers, Westchester county. It appcars that a seven-year oíd child of a machinist named Miller, living on Riverdale avenue, in the city above-mentioned, having been in delicate health almost from the time of its birth, was attacked by an unusually severa fit of illuess last Thursday morning. A physician was called in, and he, after apparently satisfying hiraself as to the course of treatuient to be adopted prescribed for the little one, and on leaving intimated that he would cali again in the afternoon. It is understood that the medicine prescribed was a powerful opiate; but whether this wan the case or not, it is asserted that when the medical men called in the afternoon a glance at his late patiënt induoed him to pronounce the child dead. The services of an utidertaker were, of course, at once procured, and by him the supposed corpse was tenderly prepared for the last rites, and then placed in au ice coffin until the usual time for interment should have elapsed. A wake was accordingly held, and mourning relatives and friends " sat up" with the body day and night until Sunday afternoon, the time announced for the funeral. Friends of the faiuily had gathered in considerable numbers to assist in paying their tribute of respect to the sorrowing parents, and almost everything being in readiness for the cominittal of " dust to dust," the undertaker and hia assistant, on transferring the body from the ice coffin to the casket in which it was about to be interred, were atruck with astonishment at the peculiar appearance of the remains. It was noticed that there waa a rnarked absence of rigor mortis, or that stiffness which is an inseparable coiicomitant of departed life. This discovery produoed an indescribably painful state of anxiety of the parents while the half frightened guests crowded around the ambiguous corpse, suggesting various means of testing whether the child was really alivo or dead. Three or four physicians were sent for, and they at once commenced a thorough search for any lingering evidence of vitality that might remain in the subject, resorting, among other means, to that of tying a cord tightly on the fingers, whereby it was seen that the nails changed color, plainly indicating that the heart had not ceased to perform its important functions. When it becauie apparent that there was life in the child, the most approved manner of administering restoratives waa resorted to, and accordingly a more palpable degree of vitality was produced, although it is doubtful if the little one, who was so providentially rescued from a living tomb, can long survive the protracted freezing ordeal through which it has passed. The child was still alive