The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-06-09


AT the examination last week there wers 20 appli-
cants, q of whom received certificates follows:
For months-Chas. NJ. Davis, JEFF. d. Walker,
Ozem b. Randall.
For 1e months-John w. Reigel, Emma j. Watt,
Thos. j. Jones, Benz. D. Grifiths, Johz E. Evans,
Thos. F. johnson, Isaac s. Perry, Evan A. johnson,
David c. Evans E. Edmund Evans, David D. Morris,
s. W. Spencer, Thos. j. Davis, E. s. Thomas, A. D.
Frazer, Geo. w. Tyler, Thos L. Evans, Thos. E.
Parks.
For 80 months-Daniel W. Jones'
The following are the questions:
oRTHoGRAPHY.
Suicidal, Imbrogho, Shekel, Pyrenees, Piquant,
Delectable, Nucleus Murran, Ofenceless, Parochial
Passible, Vegetable, Quietus Receptible Recession
Restaurant Sonoreus, Specialize, Gataghan, Polyne
sian.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Why so much rain east of Rocky Mountains and
so little west?
2. Why so much colder at Quebec than at London? !?
g. When are the days and nights equal everywhere?
A. To what river system do the great lakes belong
s. Name the States of Europe that have republican
form of government and name and locate the capital
of each.
g. Name the last State admitted into the Union, and
describe its capital.
Z. Where is Mecca and for what is 1t noted.
s. What is the prevailing religion of South Ameri-
ca?
10. What is the difference between State and
Territory?
ARITHMETIC.
l. What Is the interest II cents for and Is
days at 81 per cent?
boy bought so apples for 50 cents. He sold 20 at
the of cent and 80 at the rate of for cts
What the per cent. gain or loss?
B. A. B. and c. do piece of work in u days, B.
alone in 81 S5 days. and A. alone in "a days How long
will it take C. alone to do 1t?
4. wall to be built 700 yds. long, In 20 days
After IL had been employed on 1t for IL days, it
was found they had completed only s2o yds How
many men should then have been added to the ls to
complete the wall in the required time?
s. The compound discount of a note for years. at
per cent is s62l32. What is the face of the note?
6. What is the weight of hollow spherical iron
SHE'LL inches in diameter. the thickness of the metal
being one inch; and a cubic inch of iron weighing
I39-500 of pound?
T. stake driven down in the circumference of a
circle which diameter is 81 feet,
end of diameter. How far is it from the other
end?
In turning horse chaise In a ring, 1t is OBJ
served that the outer wheel made two turns while
the inner made the wheels both feet high,
and fixed at feet asunder the axle. What the
circumference of the track described by the outer
wheel?
9. If field be in the equateral triangle
whose altitude is rods what would it cost to fence
1t in at Is cents rod?
10 Suppose ball, it. in diameter, to be dressed
down to a cube; what would be its size?
GRAMMAR.
l. Name the auxiliary verbs, and tell which
sometimes used as principal verbs.
2. Pluraiize Courtyard Justice of the Peace syn
thesis, datum and genus.
5. Write sentence containing adjective and an
objective clause, and an adverbial phrase.
4. Decline all the compound personal pronouns.
5. Write an outline of the adjective.
Correct-Neither of the three leading candidates
were nominated.
the Gentlemen played croka while the Ladies
busyed themselves with crosha.
DIAGRAM:
7. Life Is a leaf of paper white,
Whereon each one of us may write
His word or two, and then comes night.
PARSE WORDS IN ITALICS.
8. The earth was made SO various, that the mind
or desultory man. stndious of change
And pleased with novelty might be indulged.
9. Who noble ends by noble means obtains,
Or, faifng, smiles in exile or in chains
Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed
Like Socrates, that man is great indeed.
10. Said he, They're only pegs,
But there's as wooden members quite
is represent my legs.