The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-06-10

AT the examination last week there were q appli-
cants, II of whom received certificates, all for l.
months, as follows:
Emma Inman, Mary E. Evans, j. W. Laird, Jr.,
Evan A. johnson, f. Edmund Evans, Jno. c. Alexan-
der, Robert A. Poor David Davis, jeremiah Tyler,
| Lawrence Woodson and VIM. D. Davis.
| The following are the questions:
ORTHoGRAPHY.
Receivable juiciness, anglicze vacillate maritime
coruscate leasabe igntible charade, captions, bar
renness, coterie demagogy, zouave, scenic scaable
participial, deshabille, inferable, aquiine.
ARITHMETIC.
bought horse for $780, sold him for $780, and bought
him back for 500. Did gain lose, and how much?
2 To certain number IL has been added the square
root then taken has been multiplied 7, and when
2i is added, the IS the square of IL What is the
number?
g. What number is that which being increased by
its half, its third and Is more will be doubled?
4. Suppose 1000 soldiers had been supplied with
bread sufficient to last them II weeks allowing each
man IA OF per day; but los bbs, containing 200 lbs
each, captured what must be the allowance per
day to each man, that the remainder may last them
the contemplated time?
5. steamboat having on board $50 bbls of sugar,
pays for toll the value of bbs wanting ss and
other containing 4O bbls pays at the rate the
value off bbls and SIS besides; what is the value
of the sugar per barrel?
g. cannon ball inches in diameter is be melted
into balls inches in diameter allowing wastage,
how many will it make?
7. The sides of two square pieces of ground s
to and the of their superficial is $4,000
square feet. What is the length of a side of each
piece?
s. Two ships depart from the same place, sails
due north at the rate of miles per hour, the other
due east, miles per hour. How far will they be
apart in hours?
9. servant received $40 wages yearly, and suit of
livery. After he had served months he asked for
his discharge and received for his time the livery
and Sc 1-6 in money. How much did the livery cost?
TO- man agreed to give his wife q of his estate if
he left only daughter, and if he left only she
should have Is of his property; but he left and
daughter, by which the widow received s2,4OO less
than she would have received if there had been only
daughter. What would have been his wife's dowry
if he had left only son?
GRAMMAR.
l. Define photographic and phOnic spelling.
.. What is the distinction between and gender9
3. Write sentences showing the correct use of lie
(to recline), lay, set, and sit.
4. Give synopsis of go in the indicative mode;
and saD in the potential mode.
8. Compare next, first, top, worse, and last.
g. Write three sentences, the first containing an in
fnitive with the construction of noun; the second
infnitive with the construction of an adjective;
the third an nfnitive with the construction of an
adverb.
7. Correct and give reasons: Neither of them five
sentences are correct.
AnaLvze:
s. Did not say, when you last, that would
do no more for the enterprise?
Parse Italicized Words:
9. Peace, doubling heart, my Gods am;
Who formed me man forbids my fear.
TO- When passing through the waters deep,
ask in faith his promised aid,
The waves an awful distance keep,
And shrink from my devoted head.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Why is New England a great manufacturing
country?
9. Why does Holland have many wind-mills?
q. What counties of Ohio border on Mchigan?
4. If the island of Cuba were sunk, what important
article of home consumption would rise in value,
and why?
5. In what and latitude is point 100 degrees
south of the tropic of Cancer?
6. Give the latitude and longitude of the point on
the earths surface diametrcally opposite to Jackson
7. What two meridians divide the earth into an
eastern and western heispheres, and why these two
.. What causes an eclipse? How many moons in a
year and why?
9. How is density of population foundP What is
that density in Europe? in Asia? in North America
10. Locate Honolulu, chihuahua, Matterhorn, Yoko
hama.