The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-08-06
EXAMINATION OF TEACHER s


AT the examination last week there
were 35 applicants, II of whom were re-
jected, and Is received certificates, as
follows:
William Hays, IS months; Elmer H.
Chandler, Miles Rigdon, Joseph Miller
Oliver, David Montgomery. Edward J.
Jones James NJ. Lively, Thomas w. Pat
terson, William D. Davis, David Hays,
James T. Weed, William L. Hughes.
Maggie Crozier, Julia A. Hanna, Evan j.
Jones and David C. Lloyd, 6 months.
The following were the questions used:
oRTHoGRAPHY.
Nickel, onion, pigeon, alibi. fatiguing.
gamut, pickaninny, tassel, hearsed, sieve,
fuchsia pulque, shillalah, pallid, sherbet,
raisin, t was is MT, tenor, cantos.
PENMANsHIP.
l. How many and what kinds of lines
are used in writing?
2. What is meant by the slope of
letters2
8. What are connecting lines
f. Define base line, head line.
5. Write the following as a specimen:
Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer
comes
GEOGRAPHY
l. What two States touch both the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers7
2 Name and locate the Barbary States.
3. Name, locate and describe the larg
est river.
4 Name two plants cultivated for their
fiber
s. Which pole is in perpetual darkness
in June2
6. How much nearer the center of the
earth is the North Pole than any point
on the equator?
I. Why are the Tropics At degrees
apart.
and why.
g. How is the formation of salt lakes
to be accounted for2
10. Explain the cause of the diurnal
land and sea breezes
| GRAMMAR.
/ l. What is the base OF syllable
2 What is the base of derivative
word.
g. What is prefix Give examples.
4. Write the possessive case singular
of table, leaf, torch, lynx, father-in-law
court-martial.
5. How is verb corrugated interroga-
lively and negatively?
6. Define conjugation, infection, and
synopsis.
CORRECT AND TELL WHY.
/ T. Nobody said nothing about it.
g. Had 1 knew it, 1 should not have
went.
9. Give three rules for the comma, and
name the author.
PARSE THE ITALICIsED WORDS.
10. Yet cen these bones from insult
to protect,
Some frail memorial still, erected nigh,
With uncouth rhymes and shapeless
sculpture decked,
Lmplores the passing tribute of sigh.
ARITHMETIC.
l. From s3259, take II eagles and II
dimes.
2. If men can do piece of work in
4 days, how many men will be required
to do piece of work times as large in
days?
8. The sum of two numbers is 120, and
} their difference is so per cent. of the
: greater; what are the numbers9
: 4. What sum payable in go days, will
} produce 1926, if discounted at a bank al
I, per cent.
5. The difference of the squares of 2
} consecutive numbers is 25; what are the
numbers?
/ g. If ball inches in circumference
weighs 16 fbs, what is the weight of q
similar ball IL inches in circumference
z. Find the diagonal of rectangular
} farm containing $50 acres, the width be
ing 4 of the length.
8. A merchant sent his agent $500 to
buy goods; after deducting his commits
sion of per cent, how much had he to
buy goods with?
9. If from the base of conical sugar
loaf y inches high, weighing 16 tbs., q
inches be broken, what is the residue
worth at cents pound2
10. If from full cask of 80 gallons oi
wine, of it be drawn out and replaced
with water, and this operation be repeat
ed 9 times, how much wine will remain
in the cask2
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