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Show JESUITS LEADING. Within the next year all the Jesuit colleagues in the United States will be equipped with seismographs seismo-graphs to record earthquakes. The Jesuit schools at Cleveland, Xew York and some other principal cities, as well as Washington, already have them. These institutions frequently are the first to give out the news of distant earthquakes. earth-quakes. The instrument in use in Washington employs a sheet of smoked paper over which is suspended a sharp platinum point or ii needle which records the tremors. ' So delicate is the mechanism that the balancing irons, which weigh 160 pounds, may be swayed with the human breath to record an earthquake of intense in-tense vibration. The machine is connected with, the earth by deep solid blocks of concrete and is completely separated from the building which houses it. |