The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-08-12
Neal Nominated!
At Q! o'clock on Tuesday, we re-
ceived the following dispatch:
ITO tho Editor of the Standard:
''Neal nominated on first ballot.
Neal Nominated

AT the examination, August 9th and 9TH, there
were II applicants, s ofwhom were successful.
IS months-Howard Bum and Luther weed
Il months-Ella Watkins Emma Weskitt, W. A.
HuUter and 7. T. johnson.
Following are the questions:
oRTHoGRAPHT.
Superstition, Cochineal, Escutcheon Debauchec,
Traceable Collectbe FIaccid, Metonymy, IrascibIe,
Imperative, Irrelevant. Vermiiion, Paradigm,
Transcendent, Menagerie, Malleable, Anegeable,
ROguish, Desuetude, Chalybeate.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. When, where, and by whom the first settle-
ment made in Ohio?
. Name the first four States of the Union in the
der oftheir rank.
g. Define Fauna and Flora.
4. Locate three rainless regions, and account for
their lack of rain.
s. What is an isothermal line?
6. What was the Ordinance of 1857? To what terri
tory did it apply? What State ceed it to the u s.?
l. Give the peculiar features of the Nile.
S. In what way coast ndentations related to
commerce ?-to civilization?
0. Name in their order according to the census of
$780, the eight largest cities in the u s. and the eight
largest cities in Ohio,
10. Why governments necessary? Name the
two forms of government. What is a Republic Pa
Despotism? pa Limited Monarchy? Name of
each.
GRAMMAR
1. Write a sentence which shall contain adjectives
in each degree of comparison
2. What words in the language have each three diff
ferent case forms?
g. Write the plural of each of the following nouns:
Halo, bandit, magus, courtyard, who topaz.
4. Give examples of the infnitive used subject,
object, in opposition, object of proposition.
3. Correct Give them two boys lump of sugar
EACH and let Bill have the largest because he spoke
first.
6. Diagram: There is good deal oratory in me,
don't do well can, in any place, out of
respect to the memory of Patrick Henry.
7, AnalyZe: Wine makes the face of him who
drinks it to excess blush for his habits.
| s. Parse words in italics:
(a) God made the country and man made the town.
| What 1coHder then that health and virtue, gifts
| CD That alone make Sncct the bitter draught
That life holds out to all, should most abound
And least be threatened in the fields and groves?
| 6c) A man he to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds gear.
ARITHMETIC.
l. If sell "a an article for what IS of it COST
what is my gain per cent?
| 2. A and partners. put in $500 capital
and received of the profits. What BIS capital
8. A and have the same income: saves is of
his, but B by spending $50 per annum more than A.
the end of years finds himself $40 in debts what is
| the income of each?
4. A wall to be built 700 yds. long, in 30 days.
After u men men had been employed it IL days. it
was found they had completed only 2sO yds. How
many men should then have been added to the II to
complete the wall in the required time?
5. A party of hired coach. If there had been 4
the expense would have been reduced slfor each
person. How much was paid for the coach?
g. When arrived in Chicago found my chronom-
eter h. min. 50 slow; how many degrees of Ion
gitude, and from what direction had come?
T. Find the surface and the volume of watermelon
(spheroid) which inches long and 10 inches in d
ameter at its center.
! s. How many gallons of water flow in one hour from
circular orfce which is inches i'll diameter if the
water runs at the rate of 8 #. to the second?
Q. A and invested equal sums in business. Again
ed sum equal to per cent of his stock and lost
1926. AS money at this time was double that of s.
| What amount did each invest?
agreed that if at his death he should leave
only daughter his wife should have 3 of his estate;
and if should leave only she should have Ii.
He left a and a daughter. How much was each
ones portion, if the estate worth $659l?