To the Editor of the "Nonrm-Cuma Daty News"
Sim—I received not: long ago an identical copy of the letter quoted by your correspondent, only that this one purported to have been started by an American army officer. A part of my reply to the person who inflicted it upon me did not send on your ing on it. the one hundredth in. the if each one from the beginning sent ft to nine names it would increase by geometrical progression, and the number of letters that would have een sent by this chain would be over 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,- and the amount spent in postage would be over '$2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,-
{000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,-
Figure it out. 'The' total Sgure should contain nearly many digits as the number of people whose names appeared on my chain let tone T heartily agree with your correspondent that something should be done to rid the world of such a pest, Tam, ete, Henry' Hurzinca Shanghai, Jan. 28, 1926.
"Here is a new puzzle, to read all these figures in words—Ed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.