The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-05-13

The following were the questions:
ORTHOGRAPHY.
Incipient, inoculae, debut, enallage, eryspelas,
creosote, copyist, comp1asance, acticn, transient
politician, abridgment quescence, proficiency, pOr
phyry. naptha, moccasin, monition, erse tessclate
GEOGRAPHY.
1. What is the diameter of a sphere? The circum-
ference?
,. What is the axis of the earth? What the
poles?
;. OF how many States does the United States con-
sist? How many Territories?
| 4. Which is the only State ever formed under the
Constitutions by the division of organized State?
). What State might be called the Mother OF Presi
dents? What the Mother of Rivers? Why?
| 6. What State has two capitals? What country in
South America has no capital? Why?
:. Why is the climate of the Pacific slope much
mildor and more equabla than in thasune latitude
| east Of the mountains?
s. What difference exists between the people of the
Highlands and the Lowlands of Scotland?
What is the capital and the title of the ruler of
Russia? OF Turkey? OF Japan? OF Persia? of
Egypt? OfTunis?
TO- What and where are the Occur d 'Aline, the Pen
| d'Orele, and the Boatman?
| ARITHMETIC.
l. Explain why it is, that in dividing fraction
by another, you can do SO by invertng the diyisor
and multiplying.
3 Find the of Is tenths. l25 lluudredths. and
multiply it by POO, and divide the product ly Ii bill
ionths.
g. % Of AS number sheep, plus 81 of BIS number,
equals 900; how many sheep has each, provided 81 of
! BIS number is twice % of AS number?
L. l sold -four commission of per cent; invested
the proceeds in wheat commission 1-2 per cent. If
my whole commission TlIO what the value of
| the flour and wheat?
OF $l20 dated April 18th, 1879. and payable
| in months, with interest at per cent, dis
counted June l, 1879 at per cent. What the
proceeds?
6. What are the elements Of percentage?
I. How deep is cubcal cisern that holds 200 gal
Ions Of water?
s. 4 person exchanged lSO shares of per cent.
stocks, at so per cent for 10 per stocks, at la5
per cent. How much his yearly income in
creased?
9. How much less will the fencing OF 20 cost in
the square form than in the form Of rectange, whose
breadth is Is the length the price being 1925 per rod
10. If an article had COSTUME 20 per cent more, my
rate Of gain would have been 80 per cent. less. What
my rate of gain?
GRAMMAR.
!. How are sentences classified ID with respect tc
form: (2) with respect to use?
,. How the lenses of the indicative mode formed
How adjectfves of one syllable compared ID te
denote increase; ~ to denote decrease?
4. How you determine whether adjective ol
an adverb should be used after given verb?
D. Explain fully the difference between the progres
sive form, aud the passive voice of a verb.
G. What is meant by the quantity Of syllable?
:. Write sentence illustrating four rules for the
OF capital letters.
S. what four of words recognized in syn
tax?
o. Correct: % In Ianhus, the first syllable is ac
cented, and the last unaccented 90 Neither he nor
is concerned in that matter (3) Are both the nOrtf
and south lines measured?
10. Parse words in italics:
Heaven, from all creatures hides the book of fate
an but the page prescribed, their present state;
From brutes 10hgt men, from men, what spirits know
Or who could suffer, being here bcI0~.