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Show JESUIT COLLEGES TO RECORD EARTHQUAKES Washington, July S. Within the next year, all the Jesuit colleges In the United States will be eqplpped with seismographs to record earthquakes. earth-quakes. The Jesuit schools at Cleveland. New York, and some other principal : cities, as well as Wanhington already have them. These Institutions frequently fre-quently are the first to give out tho news of distant earthquakes. j The Instrument In use here employs : a sheet of smoked paper over which Is suspended a sharp platluum polnc or a needle which records the treni- ; era. So delicate Is the mechanism that ! the balancing Irons, which welgl i 160 pounds, may be swayed with th human breath to .record an earth quake of Intense vibration. The ma chiue is connected with the cart! by deep solid blocks of concrete an' Is completely peparated from lb. building which houses it |