Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-14
NEW HAYEN. CONN. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY IA, 1890.

(Georgis) man was pestered with English sparrows. He soaked quart of hominy in strychnine and baited several places in the yard with 1t. The sparrows gobbled it up, but it did not kill them worth cent. About one hundred of them turned perfectly snow white in a very short while and became very pugnacious and quarrelsome, and whipped off the other sparrows as fast as they alight. ed.
 The question whether churchwarden must also be Christian is before an arch- deacon of the English Church. A church. warden in Worcestershire, being objected to by the vicar, has publicly declared that he is not Christian, but says that the vicar knew all the facts two years ago. Atthat time the vicar intimated to him that, though it was desirable that his own churchwarden should be Christian, it did not matter so much about a peoples churchwarden-and the peoples churchwarden he became.
 The emperor of Austria is apparently not entirely in favor of Woman. Three Polish widows, few days ago, appealed to the ministry of war in Vienna for the privilege of organizing an Amazon corps for the im- perial Austrian and Hungarian army. The three widows claimed that young women had as mnch right to assist in the defense of their country as had their fathers or brothers. The applicants gave an exhibition of their skill in the use of arms and their knowledge of military evolutions. They offered to equip and train the corps at their own ex- pense. The petition was pigeon-holed. The Amazons then appealed personally to the emperor, who heard them in silence and dis missed them without an answer. They now announce that if his majesty does not grant their reduest they will organize their corps anyway, under the name of the Amazon Free Lanciers.
 Jean Ingelow has suffered such annoyance of late years from the constant and urgent applications of autograph collectors that shs has at length decided upon 8 plan by which she hopes to satisfy them all and to serve [ particular private purpose of her own. | certainly contains some clements of original ity and interest. She has been for loni time interested in securing the necessary funds for restoring and repairing the old St Lawrence church at Evesham. England, o1 which her brother-in-law is rector. Bsliev. ing that her many admirers, if they value her autographs highly, ought to be willing to pay something for them, especially wheI the money is to be devoted to charitable hoo Iorr number of copies of her favorite poems dating and signing each with her name, and has placed them in the hands of her Ameri can publishers to be sold at $2 each.
 A curiosity in elections is that by whicl | the republic of San Marine selects it's Capita l nj Reggenti, or twin presidents. San Marine which has population of about 5000, Ii ruled by double authority. On the da. ! fixed for election the retiring magistrate march in solemn procession headed by tn band of the republic, escorted by sixteen o the Mobile guard belonging to the plebeia class, and followed by the authorities to tn chief church. Here they are received by tn clergy. Then the Veni Creator Is sung, ,afte which the election begins in the church it self. One of the priests reads out the name of the citizens who are eligible, each write
 on ticket which is written on silve
 salver, and the latter emptied into lare
 silver vase. A child is called upon to dra
 two tickets out of the vase, and the nam'
 drawn are those of ths elected rulers. IT
 priest loudly reads out ths names, the ban
 strikes up hymn, the bells of the town al
 set ringing, and San Marine hasl her tw
 Capitani Reggsnti for the next twelve month
 The two magistrates who entered office c this April were Pietro Tornini and Fral cesco Marcucci.