The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-17
GENERAL NOTES.

Mr.. Ames Van Wart, whose studio is now
in his house in London, is modelling vase
which will stand more than three feet high
The handles of the vase are two Indians in
a sitting posture each with bison head I'M
der his feet. The relief is an encampment
and bison hunt Mr.. Van Wart has re-
Gently finished a number of plaster por-
trait busts. His large work. 1.-THE Sleeping
Beauty" is in the Central park museum.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal,
speaking OF an exhibition of curious snakes
from Asia called glass snakes, which break
in pieces when struck with a stick, says that
we need not go to Asia to find this curious
reptile, as they are found in the Indian ter
ritory, having the same peculiarities ascribed
to the glass snakes In that portion OF the
colony occupied by the Cherokees l have
seen them and witnessed their breaking up
peculiarlties when struck with stick. They
resemble our striped snakes in size and color.
/ have been surprised to find no mention of
these snakes in works on natural history.
In a recent sermon, De Witt Talmadge
shows better appreciation of the relation
of journals to the public than he seems to
possess of some other things in life. He
said: Another great trial OF the newspaper
profession was the unhealthy, craving APP
petite for diseased intelligence-murders,
scandals and all other kinds of moral slush.
Do any among my auditors for one moment
suppose that publishers would give these
things to their readers If they did not de-
mand them? 1t was only case of supply
and demand, and the newspaper men were
not at fault, for so long as there was an in
iquitous demand there would be an in
iquitous supply
A late number Of the Celestial Empire. a
Chinese paper, contains this prophecy: 'The
immigration of the Chinese into California
has been accompanied by the gravest COM
plications. The working classes have. in
many walks of life, found their occupation
gone They have been elbowed out of the
field by a colony of hard working abstem-
ious and economical Cinnamon, for whom
the cocktail of the country has no charms,
and who are able to live, and live well, upon
fraction of what a native has to pay. What
has happened in California may happen in
any other country whittier the Chinese may
enugrate; so that there is possibility of our
even regretting the energy with which we
hove striven to rouse the dormant nation
into life. The prophecy of Wen-siafg may
some day be realized to our cost and the
western world be almost overrun by the
black haired race"
A New York correspondent thus relates
the manner in which Mr.. Habberton's pop
ular book "Helen's Babies took shape: Last
summer, at tine time of his vacation, his
| wife was i'll, and he spent his days of rest
with her. She is an appreciative listener to
his writings, and in seasons of i'll health
passes pleasant hours reading, or listening
to his reading of stories created for her en-
tertainment and diversion. One day in
particular Mr.. Habberton asked his wife what
he could do for her, and she responded with
a request for a new story. He went to another
part of the house to which the children,
three or four young boys. had been sent that
their noise might not disturb their mother,
and it occurred to him that an account of
the childrens sayings and doings of that day
and other days, strung together into nara
tive form, might entertain his wife, Before
he appreciated what the fight of time had
| prepared, he found his unstudied effort de-
yeloping almost limitless before him.