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Show MACHINE WARNS OF DANCER. Marvelous Instrument Installed In Historic His-toric Milan Dulldlng. The fall ot tho Campanile of Venice aroused terror In the breasts of all those who have tho caro of tbe old buildings of Italy, and It was specially felt In Milan. Thn authorities, to re-assuro re-assuro tho Mllanoso nboul the Duomo, at onco bad an Instrument fitted up which registers tho sllgtlnst movement move-ment Tho mechanism Is ono of tho most deltcato Imaginable, and most wonderful. It shows oscillations produced pro-duced by tho winds, and tho most Imperceptible Im-perceptible Inclinations In the pin naclos. It Is hung In tho highest pin-nsclo, pin-nsclo, and may be called tho pendulum pendu-lum relscr. In IJavll It Is of great weight and very strong, thus obviating obviat-ing movementa of Its own, and Is nearly near-ly sixty feet long, but nt tbo samo time Is, as Indicated, very sensitive. At onco. when put lu position. It showed the periodical movement of tho wholo cathedral through the action ot the sun on tho stone. Who wonld have, believed this were poaslblo, but so It 1st While, strangely enough, such being be-ing the fact, It Is also shown that through thn special way In which It Is constructed, tho chief pinnacle realsts tho action of the wind bettor than on ordinary tower. Special caro baa been taken that the point of suspension ot tho Instrument Instru-ment shall not ary with tho years. Thus Milan fetls safe, llor great church cannot fall without fair warn Ing. I'all Mall Qaaette. |