Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-13
ExAM1NArIoN OF TEACHERS.

vi children, home, and wife. Il
Coolliie, Ohio, jul :, 1861
EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.
The following questions were pro
pounded for written answers at the Ex-
aminationsef Teachers held in Pomeroy
On the 9TH inst:
9-N rGRANMAR. 30 &.
1. What is parsing?
=. What is a proposition, and why is
it so called?
5. What is the difference between q
personal aud a relative pronoun?
4. How many modes and how man Y
lenses in each?
s5 John and me saw them men fight
ing with each other. Correct, and parse
fighting, each and other.
6. AS is sometimes an adverb. Parse
each word. ,.-ssz.
Z. Teach ME what is truth. Parse
all.
S. Heaven hides from brutes scAni
men, from men what spirits know
Parse the words in italics.
g. What isthe distinction between a
regular and ar irregular verb?
10. Proportion is an equality ofratios
Analyze, and parse each word.
- GEOGRAPHY. @ s
/. What are the three largest islands
insthe Mediterranean sea?
2. Give the boundary, capital, and
metropolis of Texas,
- Where does the river Gila rise
what direction does it run and into
what does it flow.
4: What is the highest mountain in
North America?
5. The capitals of what, States have
nearly the same latitude as Columbus?
q. What is the outlet of Great Slave
Lake and into what does it flow?
Z. What is the largest political diyi-
sion of North America?
s. What is the largest river Of Asia
that flows intoathe Arctic Ocean?
D. Yhfough what waters would you
pass in sailing from St. Petersburg tc
London? ~. @ wg go
10. What peninsula is the mos,
Southern part of Europe?
ARITHMETIC
IName and define the Fundamental
rulessof Arithmetic.
by What tables would you measure
the fSlIgwihg articles: wheat, coal, gold
iron, caieGeL ribbon, water, milk, dis
tance, surfaces and solidities? -
1.s.la,. 81
cloth each containing y yds. at So. 81
per yd.. forN t.. cheese, each chees
containing &c lbs at 10 cts. per lb. h
also gave s pieces of cloth at So 90 pei
yd. for $50 cheeses Of the same quality
weight and price; how many cheese
were inthe first lot, and how many yds
in each piece of cloth in the second lot
4. Change che sixteenth to decima
and .0009375 TO . common fraction i
its lowest terms. z = - = -
s.. I lent a friend $500 which he KEEP
20 months. Sometime after | borrowe,
ofiliim $500 how long should | use
to balance favors?
6. i's Pomeroy, Aug. 1st, 1857.
For Value received, | promise to pa
d onn 1FQW OF Oruer, on Q6luanu, ulty
four dollars and eighteen cents, with in
terest.
Indorsements #
Jan 1st, 1858, reced s1225;
Feb. 5th, 1859, 2.10;
Dec. 29th, 1859, 312;
Feb bsl1th, 1860, 37.1S.
Whit was due May 7th, 1860?
Z. Sold watch which cost me $50
for s25., on credit of s months
What did ] gain by the sale?
g.. What is the difference betwee
Simple and Compound Proportion?
81 IF u men can build a wall 80 fee
long, feet high, and 3 feet thick, il
15daysaof ~ hours each, in how man
days Of 8 hours each, can 60 men buil'
waIl 300 feet long, s feet high, and
feet thick?
TO- Two ships sail from the sam
port, one goes due north 12S miles, tn
other due east 72 miles; how far arc tn
ships from each other?