installed in his academic chair. EDITOR’S NOTE-BOOK. We regret exceedingly that a serious illness makes it impossible for Mr. Richard Grant White to furnish his usual paper to the present issue of THE CHAUTAUQUAN. Another month Mr. White will probably be able to continue his articles. * * * * * The glimpse we are getting, even at this early day, of the Chautauqua program for 1885, is very inviting. The regular School of Science will be under the charge of Prof. Edwards, president of Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, N. Y., and that of Pedagogy, under Dr. Dickinson, secretary of the board of education, Boston. Such people will be present as John B. Gough, Dr. Deems, Miss Willard, Mrs. Livermore, Bishop Foster, Dr. Boardman, of Philadelphia; Dr. G. P. Hays, of Denver, who will organize a school of Christian work; the Schubert Quartette, of Chicago; the original Fisk Jubilee Singers, for two weeks, and Miss Henninges, the noted singer of Cleveland, O. A very superior organist, Prof. Isaac V. Flagler, has been engaged for the entire Chautauqua season. * * * * * The alarm which the recent terrible earthquake in Spain has caused has led to the compilation of some interesting figures relative to the number of shocks which have occurred in late years. Between 1872 and 1883 no less than 364 earthquakes are recorded as occurring in Canada and the United States, not including Alaska. Of these the Pacific slope had 151, the Atlantic coast 147, and the Mississippi valley 66. Thus it appears that an earthquake occurs about once in every twelve days somewhere in the United States and Canada, and about once a month on the Atlantic coast. These are exclusive of the lighter tremors which do not make an impression on observers, but which would be recorded by a properly constructed seismometer, an instrument designed to detect the slighter shocks. “Just about twenty years ago,” writes Dr. Felix Oswald in a recent letter to THE CHAUTAUQUAN, “when I was stationed at Sidi Belbez, in western Algiers, I had a conversation with a half-civilized Sheik, who had visited our camp and seemed to take a good deal of interest in the portrait of a _mitrailleuse_ (”Gatling gun“) that had been photographed together with a group of Zouave artillerists. After scrutinizing the picture and comparing it with the original, he clutched his head, as if stunned by his emotions. ‘Where do they teach such things?’ he inquired, and then suddenly burst out: ‘What a pity that education and Gatling guns can not be had at home!’ For North America, at least, THE CHAUTAUQUAN seems to have solved one of those problems.” * * * * *