The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-10-07

AT the examination of teachers last week there
2l applicants, Is of whom received certificates,
follows:
S6 months-Jasper n. Steele.
"A months-Charles r. Smith.
IS months-Alfred E. JONES' Ada Horton, Lizzie
Gardner.
IL months-Lizzie Barnes, j. L. Parks E. j. Fair
fax j. K. Pickrel, Joshua Thomas.
6 6months-Charles Starr, W. W. Larabee, j. W. Nc
Cormick Mary o. Ewing, Smith Ewing. Jno. H.
Smith. JAS. c. Webb, Chas A. Smith.
The following were the questions:
ORTHoGRAPHY.
Gravely relievabe. penniless peroraton, satirist.
susceptible, yagary, Ewefare, irritable beler, ma
ria, surrepitious, surveillance auspicious excru
ate, facade, glossary horoscope, nsidious, roulette
GEOGRAPHY.
/. What is the object in the study of Geography !?
?. Name the branches of the U. S. government. and
give the principal function of each.
8. Name the most populous FIVE counties In Ohio,
and the county seat of each.
4. Name the principal seaports of Great Britain,
and its principal manufacturing cities.
5. Where on the Earths surface do the days begin
6. How many moons are there in year. and why =?
7. Why does the length of degree of longitude de-
rrease, after passing the Equator?
s. What and where are the Geysers?
9. What and where are pampas, selvas, lanos, and
steppes?
10. In what is it Christmas Melbourne in
Australia, and why?
Are you a member of any Teachers Institute and
you in attendance at its last session, and if
how long?
1. Name and define the general division of gram
mar.
?. What are the elements of sentences? Write n
sentence containing all the elements.
8. Write the signs of the of the indicative
| and the potential modes.
4. When is a noun or pronoun put absolute? Give
examples.
5. When the singular and the plural of a noun are
alike in the nomnatiye, how is the possessive form
ed?
G. What is infection? What parts of speech are
infected?
:. AnaIyze: Knowledge dwells in heads replete
with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds atten
tive to their own.
s. Parse words in italics
Better far
Pursue frivolous trade by serious means,
Than sublime art frivolous!y.
9. (a) Think for thyself-one good idea,
But kRo10R to be thine own,
(b) Is better than a thousand CLEANED
From fields by others SODH.
ARITHMETIC.
l. What is the difference between 5 per cent. and
.5 per cent. of $50?
?. What will 20 5-20s cost at lis per cent?
s. In a village of ths walks are SO inches wide,
some 20 inches, and others Gi inches. What is the
width of the widest tagging that will suit all the
walks?
4. If 25S grains standard gold, containing nine
parts OF pure gold 10 aOy. one eagle now
much pure gold should be in British sovereign,
worth $i.Sf in American gold?
5. Four agents start from New York at the same
time. The first makes his trip in weeks, the second
in weeks, the third in Is weeks, and the fourth in 90
weeks. How many weeks will pass by before they
will again start out from New York together, and
how many trips win each have made?
G. Land worth $1,000 acre, is worth how much
foot front of 80 ft depth reserving lilo for streets?
Z. How long will it require to travel at miles
of 256000 laid that the
longest distance shall be the shortest possible
to contain the given area?
8. How much lead, specific gravity II, with u
copper sp. o. be put IL or of cork, sp.
gr. 4, so that the will just float?
o. A, B and bought grindstone feet in dame-
for IS; paid sl.25; sl75 and $50 Required
the thickness each must grind down, G owning the
central part. No allowance to be made for the eyer
10. The men employed in factory work i hours,
the women hours. and the boys hours, each day;
for aboring the same number of hours, each man
ceives half more than each woman. IN ach woman
third than each boy; the entire paid to all
the each day is double of the paid to all
the boys; and for every s. ell by all the women
each day, s.! earned by ell the Herce 1t is
required to find the number of each class employed,
the eptige number being 50.