Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-17
$250. The proceeds of the entire sale amounted to about SIS, 900.

When Mrs. Amelia Frost was ordained
 to the Congregational ministry at Little ton, Masss schusstts, the o.her day, one of Che examining committee asked Mrs Frost: '.Does the Bible point to women's preach ingp Apparently SO in my case, ," was the reply. "But," said the qusstionsr, '.I had hoped you would answer by some quota- ton from the Bible." Instantly Mrs. Frost replied: "Your sons and daughters shall
 prophecy" There was tremendous ap-
 plauss, and any spirit of opposition to the
 ordination ended.
 Mr. Van Goulaken, who has lately died,
 was one of the celebrities of the city of
 Antwerp, and his house one of the sights
 that was more amusing to the visitor than
 to the neighborhood. Van zGoulaken had
 a special antipathy to street car lines, and
 when they were laid down in front of his
 house many years ago, he took an oath and
 registered it in letter to the authorities,
 that he would never have his house cleaned
 or painted again. The house was long a
 disgrace to the fashionab.e quarter in
 which he lived; but he regarded its dirti-
 ness with grim satisfaction. In his will
 he has forbidden his heirs to use the word
 "regret" in any announcement of his death.
 A remarkable instance of the value of permangsnate of potash as an antidote for opium poisoning is reported from Pitts burg. A man had taken a large quantity of laudanum with suicidal intent, and all the ordinary means of reconciliation were used without avail. The man was taken to a hospital, and notwithstanding the fact that his face had turned blue and. his nerv- ous system was paralyzed, the physicians determined to try the effect of permangan- ate of potash. They were unfamiliar with the use of the drug and proceeded cautious ly by hypodsrmic injections. With the fifth injection the muscles began to con- tract and after two other injections the
 It is said that the most remarkable crown jewels and silverware are to be found in Denmark, q country not generally regarded ss exceptionally wealthy. They are the result of three hundred years' col lection and resemble nothing that can be seen anywhere elte. Part of the throne itself coneists of three solid silver lions, life size, and in the chance1 of the royal chapel there are solid silver statues of the tw elve apostles. There is also an eques- trian statue in solid silver of King Chris tiau TX mounted on horseback, with groups on the base representing the vari- ous arts and industries which go to make Denmark prosperous. The country has been reduced in area and importance by various wars, but the royal dignity has re- mained unimpaired and is in many re- spects greater than that of monsrchs of very much larger countries.
 Hardware tells the following as @ new and true story about Jay Gould: When MT. Gould was young man, in e New Jersey town, he was taken violently Ill, and a woman undertook to see him through. He never forgot 1t, and when any of his old friends of former days came to see him-and his office door always had the latch-string outside for such-he was won't to ask after this particular woman. She had an adopted child, married and living in the far West, and the woman, when she became old, resolved upon see- ing her, and after years privation, saved enough money to make the journey. MT. Gould happened at the last moment to learn of her scheme, and posthaste passes were collected fot the whole distance there and back, and mailed her without word of comment. The old woman could not sleep for three nights. for the special won her intended trip.