of somewhat alarming nature was our chief excitement last week. It occurred at 8.50 pam, on Wednesday, the 22nd of July, when most of the community were at dinner, Either Tientsin was on the extreme limit of the wave or the latter had little breadth, for only a few of the houses in the Settle. ment proper were alfeted. "Thave who did not fect it are as usual incredulous and disposed to chaff but none the lew emphatic are those who. did feel it about the real nature of the shock. -It differed from. all' others during the' Inst decade by. the fact that it. was preceded by a dull harsh grating noise, something like the fall of a brick wall, The shock. {self suc. ceeded this noise alter an interval of two seconds and lasted between tivo and three seconds, It was severe enotigh to give one all the usual uncanny sensations—that the bottom of the universe was about to fill out, etc,, etc. It will be interesting. to observe if the seismologists in other districts noticed the phenomenon. In: the native city it was felt only in some streets.
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