To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuina Datty News."
Sir,—Your statement in this morning's paper that the typhoon just, missed Shanghai was very surprising, but none the less reassuring. Most of my friends and I were of the opinion that a typhoon actually had struck the City, but your report to the contrary has shown us how completely we had all been fooled. Until we read this morning's news, we were convince that it was something more than a "Scotch Mist'? that rattled~ our windows, and knocked down so many trees, and we are anxious to know what on earth would happen to us if a typhoon actually did hit Shanghai, seeing what havoc and destruction one can accomplish in missing us.
You made one statement about the glass rising very quickly, which I can fully corroborate. A flying pane of it missed me by only a fraction of an inch, I am, ete.
Merzor O. Lootcat.
Shanghai, Aug. 22.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.