| Show o Exchanges and Reviews Cj g f A new board of editors has been elected for the Ariel We Ve hope they will continue continue continue con con- to maintain the Ariel's high rank in college journalism The question for debate between the theU U of Wisconsin and Michigan is is Resolved That the United States should adopt the policy of subsidizing the Mercantile Marine Mr lr Brown Brown Do Do you think advertising pays Mr Mercer Mercer Mercer-It It didn't pay me I lost money by it Mr Brown Brown- What Brown What did you advertise Mr 1 Mercer I Mercer I advertised for a wife and d and got her We vVe are of often ten told that modern students must make specialties of some particular lines of work and when we look around us accordingly we see the professional athlete the professional book worm the professional politician the professional dancer the professional tailors tailor's dummy Civilization moves on apace The The Students Students' Students Students' Students Students' Stu Stu- dents' dents Journal Dr Di- Stuart is thinking some of writing to Edison asking him to invent some appliance appliance appliance ap ap- by which the culprits who speak above a stage whisper in the reading room may be spotted and electrocuted This is isa isa a splendid idea but as the machine would of course be impartial the Doctor himself m might be caught The caught The Central Ray The Scientific American of March is full of interesting matter On page is a valuable article on the Drainage of Swamp If you do not quite remember where where this swamp is get your atlas and look at the 0 Ii h map of Southeastern Georgia There you will find this great swamp stretching stretching north from the Florida line When the swamp is drained acres of valuable land will be added to the agricultural area of Georgia This will make 2750 farms of 80 So acres each This land will support a population of between i and people The swamp is heavily timbered with pine and cypress trees The pines average aver i age 70 feet to the limb are straight as an arrow and from i to 8 feet in diameter while the cypress trees are enormous in size the average diameter being from 10 io ioto to 12 feet It is not known when the work will be done One hundred and fifty laborers were working until Jan 1st when the number was doubled and now it goes on night and day When the canal is complete it will be feet wide and 63 feet deep Sugar From Cotton Seed on page will be read with interest by our chemists The illustrations relating to the ship Terror are good and give even the landsman landsman lands land m man man n some idea of the appe appearance rance of a A warship |
