The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-29

AT the last examination of teachers there were p
applicants 10 of whom received certificates, as fol-
lows:
For II Months-Sylvester Spencer, May Handley,
Sarah NJ. Callahan, A. E. Mclaughlin S. d. Nc
Laughlin, Susan Blair, Albert Lackey. VI. NJ Evans,
Flora Patterson and Sarah Patterson.
The following the questions:
oRTHoGRAPHY.
Negotiate, Omnivorous, Weird. Scaable, Cringing,
Crystallize, Weasel, Athlete, Paterre, Mirage Nu-
cleus. Risibe, Rouge, vilifer, Coectible, Amerce,
Referee, Pharmacy, Ossicle, Etymology.
GRAMMAR.
l. What is Inversion, and when does it occur?
2. Name all the classes of independent elements
s. By what may interrogatve clauses be introduced?
4. By what means indefinite questions asked?
s. What is the abridged form of an adjective clause
of an adverbial clause?
g. State the position of noun or pronoun which is
the object of two propositions or of prepo-
sition and a transitiye verb.
l. What Office does clause introduced by a subor-
dinate connective perform?
s. How do you dispose of such expressions as las
appears" las concerns ''as regards
8. When are propositions usually omitted?
10. OF what kind of prOnoun is the English Ian
guage destitute?
GEOGRAPHY.
/. Name the five Great Powers of Europe.
Name the five oceans in the order of their size.
s. What is the latitude of place l55 degrees north
of the south pole? In what zone is it?7
What is supposed to be the reason why the earth
is lattened at the poles?
5. In what part of the United States manufac-
lures chiefly carried on? Why?
G. A vessel lands at New York laden with cotton
sugar and rice what port did she probably sail
Give reasons for your answer.
Z. What empire of Asia is composed of islands
alone?
What country lies in the northern part of Asia?
To what nation does it belong?
9. What empire is on the Western Hemisphere? !?
What important Republic on the Eastern?
10. How are United States Senators chosen and who
| are the present Senators from Ohio?
ARITHMETIC.
| l. What is the basis of the English system of
| weights and measures?
?. One number divided by another gives quotient
l2; the product of the two is .GS What the num-
! bers?
What 2z b. of tea be sold for if 22s . cost
| $l4, and the retail profit is 20 per cent?
4. A owes $500, payable in months; at the close
of2 months he wishes to make such payment will
| extend the time of the balance TO one year. What
must be the payment?
If $500 placed at interest yields an income of SIS in
months how much must be placed at interest at the
| same rate to yield an income of $II5 in months?
g. Which has the greater surface, cube whose solid
contents 1854 cubic feet, rectangular solid
having the solidity, whose height is half its
length and whose width is threefourths its length
| How much?
+ How many board in post IL #. long. in.
square at the bottom, and in. square at the top?
8. A ball feet in diameter weighed 1000 b. What
will be the diameter of one that weighs 1000 b.?
o. Divide three thousand, one hundred twenty five
millonths by hundred twenty-five ten-miionths.
| TO- Two casks, each containing gallons of wine.
are mixed as follows: gallon is taken out of each and
put back into the other. This is repeated times :;
how much of the original contents remains in each
cask?