The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-05-09

demand. }F- 3t
Having received this, he took ur
sheet OF paper, on which wa:
printed in large caps the word
"Granauaar," and writing at its TOP
the Ominous number II, placed il
in my hand. 1 took it with shud.
der, and sought seat in the ex.
treme southeast corner of the room,
behind the largest female teacher
there. Having tsken this advan-
tage, I proceeded to answer the
questions on my paper, as follows:
"Write your name in full"
"Aurelius Themistocles Theophi-
lus Won Puff"
"SSign your P. o. address in FULL
t'Little Rock, Blank County, O.,
via Big Stone, Blank County, Ohio,
(Care of Simon Crazier.("
"What is your exact age?"
"19 years, Z months, 13 days,
and 5 hours"
"Where do you expect to teacb?''
"In Sub district No. Is; Little
Rock Township, if get certif.
cate. cit is mixed school, al
though the children are mostly
white.")
Sat what price?"
"$19,0O per month";"
"Do you attend Teachers Insti,
tutes?"
"SOmetimes."
"What works have you read on
the Theory and Practice of Teach
ing?"
"Jefferson's Manual, and Web
ster's UD abridged Dictionary"
"For what educational papers do
you subscriber"
"TCledo Blade, and Star-spangled
"Have you any contagious dis
ease?p
"Tyrones sumus."
"What is a sentence?"
ga sentence is something taken
out of a book, as, sinkor swim, live
or die, survive or perish. Hic,
h@c, &C."
"What is a defective verb?"
"Sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt;
fui, fuisti, fuit, cram, eras, erat,
mus a um."
"Give an example of EACH"
"1n your play be very careful not
to give each other pain" For each
seemed Other," &c.
"Write the sentence before you in
your best handwriting"
l obeyed, and was fully fifteen
minutes doing it, being very careful
to put mark under all the words
that were marked in the sentence
to be copied.
"Analyze the sentence, and parse
the underscored words"
1 obeyed again, wearing out four
pens in the operation, and exhaust
ing three sheets of fooIs-cap.
l finished my Grammar paper at
IA minutes after IL o'clock, having
been at work for 4 hours and IA
minutes. After Grammar came
Arithmetic, Geography, and Theory
and Practice. There were s ques-
tions in Arithmetic, % in Geogra-
ply, and II in Theory and Practice.
l will only trouble the reader with
a few of the simplest of these ques-
tons, as | did not try to answer the
more difficult ones. If 1 had, ]
would have been there yet. The
following must suffice:
ga cistern is filed by pipe in c
hours. How many pipes will it
take to fill it in 45 minutes?"
eff one pipe fill it in 6 hours, tc
fill it in As minutes would require
6 times 45 pipes, which is 27C
pipes"
elbow would you plant an or
chard of Is trees in II rows, with
8 trees in a row."
81 would plant them with 6
spade, placing them 20 feet apart"
"Find the cube root of 2, to IL
decimal places"
"Such questions are usually work.
ed by trigonOmetry. can't work il
by arithmetic, without the use O
cubical blocks"
"Name the Eastern States, anG
give three leading cities in each"
"Maine-Augusta, Perth, Brus'
sells. New hampshire Concord
Berne, Bankok. Massachusetts
Boston, Belgium, Cutler Station
Rhode Island-Providence, Newport
New Market. Connecticut--Hart,
ford, New Haven, Fairfax Court
House."
Explain the tides"
"The eccentricity of the earth's
orbit, produces disturbance in the
centrifugas forces, which is called
by Caesar in his "Commentaries ;
"Respadlica, fero, terre, tut, latun
Orgetorir naortuna est.1
"Where was ancient Babylon?"
"He fell in Mesopotamia. Mesop
otamia is an island, situated in what
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is now called Persia"
"If you found your class was get
ting sleepy, what would you do?"
81 would tell them to go to bed
earlier of nights"
"What do you think of corporal