The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-05-09
At the Examination last Friday and

At the examination last Friday ant
and Saturday, there were 81 applicants
u received certificates, and 10 were re
jected The following are the person.
who received certificates:
Twenty-four months, David D. Evans
Is months, Annie Waddell; II months
Lorenzo D. Ray, Mary o. Ewing, May
Handley, j. A. Peters, E. A. Johnson
Mary Thomas, Cordelia Price, Mary Ev
ans; months, Susan johnson, P. c.
Booth
The following are the questions;
oRTHoGRAPHY.
Abyssal, Fetch, Coupon, Desiccate, De-
shabille, Desuetude, Marquee, Cinque-f foil,
Elite, Gallicze, Emissory, Encyclical,
Habitue, Acquiesce, Barbette, Barege,
Panegyrize Pachyderm, Cycle, Travelling
GEOGRAPHY.
l.. Why does the surface of the Earth
appear level?
2. What is the highest mountain in
the world and where situated
3. What grand divisions would you
along the Goth degree North latitude p
If you travelled along the Goth degree
South latitude?
4. Where is the height of land?
5. What is the estimated length of
navigable rivers in the United States.
6. By what waters would you go from
Omaha to Chicago?
I. What is the number of inhabitants
in South America? To what races do
they belong? What the proportion of
each?
8. What forms the boundary between
Europe and Asia?
9. Where is the Scandinavian Peninsu-
la and by whom inhabited2
TO- Where is Mecca and for what is it
noted?
GRAMMAR.
l. Give example of "that" used as three
different parts of speech.
2. Write sentence containing all the
parts of speech.
3. Write sentence with an infnitive
used as subject.
4. Write sentence with an infinitive
used as object.
5. Write entence with "as" used as
a relative pronoun.
Give an example of,
6. A proposition used as the subject of
a sentence
I. A l,opositi, Ii used the object of a
sentence
s. A proposition put in opposition with
a noun.
g. | have paid yom ,ohat l oaced you.
10 | have advised you 'chat to study.
Parse words in italics
ARITHMETIC.
|. A tree 81 ft. high, was broken by
the wind; { of the part that fell was equal
10 of the stump; how long was each 4?
2. l can pasture 10 horses or Is cows on
my ground if have COWS how many
horses can l keep?
3. A company engaged a supper; being
oined by 2-5 as many more, the bill of
each is 60 cts. less; what would each have
paid if none had joined therein2
a. If cloth cost Is cts. per yard how
hould it be marked so as to sell for per
,ent. less than the marked price and yet
make 60 per cent.
5. If one side of triangular field be 16
ods long, at what point on this side and
parallel with one of the other sides, must
he field be cut to divide it into two equal
'arts?
6. Where must ladder stand between
wo trees 80 feet apart, and respectively
s and 60 feet high, so that the top of the
adder may touch the top of either tree ?
7. After a strip 40 rods wide had been
nown from each side of square meadow,
Of the meadow remained unknown; how
1any acres in the field?
s. How many acres in square field, of
,hich the diagonal is 40 rods longer than
be side?
9. If A. owns of conical hay stack
5 feet high. how many feet must he take
rom the top for his share =?
10. | rented house at $50 month if
ayment be deferred until the end of the
ear, what would ,,the owner be entitled
D reckoning interest at the rate of u
er cent