A reading people we know ourselves to be, but it is rather astonishing to discover that we publish twelve times as many daily papers as the United Kingdom. _The Athenæum_ calls attention to the fact that while the United States has one daily paper to every 10,000 inhabitants, the English have one to every 120,000. It would be gratifying if we could feel sure that the quality stood in the same ratio. * * * * * The work of the Chautauqua University is attracting attention far and wide. In a recent issue of the _Irish Christian Advocate_, published in Belfast, we notice in answer to a correspondent’s query, as to “What is the Chautauqua University?” a long and enthusiastic article upon the plan. The adaptation of the “Chautauqua Idea” to all people and all countries is very wonderful. * * * * * A lady is said to have recently offered $50,000 to the Boston school authorities, to be devoted to the filling of the teeth of children whose parents were too poor to employ dentists. Should she devote her money to the purchase of tooth brushes and toothpicks, and employ a police of teeth, who would compel their daily use by children from babyhood up, she would confer an inestimable benefit upon future generations. * * * * * Frances Power Cobbe, well known to the readers of THE CHAUTAUQUAN, concludes her powerful article on “A Faithless World,” in the December issue of _The Contemporary Review_, with these strong words: “We have been told that in the event of the fall of religion, ‘life would remain in most particulars and to most people much what it is at present;’ it appears to me, on the contrary, that there is actually _nothing_ in life which would be left unchanged after such a catastrophe.” * * * * * A wise thing is being done in London. A series of popular lectures upon the subject of precautions—national, local and personal—to be taken against cholera, has been begun. Now that the menace of this dread disease hangs over our own country, it would be a sensible plan for cities and villages to provide a similar course of instruction. It could be easily arranged, too. * * * * * We are happy to extend congratulations to a well known contributor to THE CHAUTAUQUAN, Mr. C. E. Bishop. Mr. Bishop was married in Buffalo, December 31st, to Miss Emma Mulkins, of that city. As the former editor of the Jamestown (N. Y.) _Journal_, of the Buffalo _Express_, and at present of _The Countryside_, of New York, as an editorial writer on _The Assembly Herald_, as the author of “Pictures in English History,” and of frequent entertaining articles in our columns, Mr. Bishop is widely and favorably known. * * * * *