The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-10-13
AT the examination last week there were "a appli

cants, 20 of whom received certificates, as follows
Six months-Tryphena James, John H. Smith, Alice
v. Gillian, Didymus Richie, Mary Maut, Lewis L.
Allen, William H. Twine, j. x. Pickrel, Phebe Nc
Kitterick.
Twelve months-T. W. Cherington, c. W. Chering-
ton, Mollie Ryan, Ira " Randall. Lizzie Stevenson,
j. L.. Parks.
Eighteen months-J. R. Jacobs, John w. johnson,
George w. Johnson Frank Sternberger.
Twenty-four months-Moses E. Morgan.
The following the questions:
oRTHoGRApHY.
Epicurean, epheme-al, encysted, duteous, cupola,
curass sexennial, synonym, vaclllate bearabe, ber
gamot, capillary celery, cenotaph. chandelier, rele
vant salient, propitiate, incipient, pot-pour-ri.
ARITHMETIC.
1. What is the Scale of system of Notation? What
is the radix of the scale?
2. Define factor, power, root trial divisor, and
ponent.
8. How do we distinguish, properly, between the
terms concrete NUMBER and compound number?
4. What is the difference between allegation medal
and allegation alternate?
8. The diagonals of two similar rectangles are
to IL: how many times does the larger contain the
smaller?
6. receives $3.50 and 5000, from joint specu-
lation if invested $7.sa1-3 than B, what did
each invest?
T. In extracting the square root of perfect power
the last complete dividend was found what
was the power?
8. AIS money is CO per cent. than BIS;
so per cent than C's and C's is 80 per
more than DIS. All together they have s2lOO. How
much has each?
have G2 land in one farm and rs acres in
another wish to divide these in.o the largest pos
sibe fields of equal size. How many fields will there
be, and how many acres in each field?
10. and having been choppirg wood for the same
number of weeks B has chopped g cords more than
A. could earn all that A has earned, by chopping
5 1-3 weeks; but for A to what has earned it
would require Il weeks. How many cords did each
| Chop?
| GRAMMAR.
l. Give the principal parts of lose, know, lie
choose grow, and GET
q Give synopsis of ''sce in The indicative active
| and ''freeze' in the potential passive.
| 8. Correct and give reasons:
Ia) They would neither go in themselves suffer
| ed others TO enter.
| (b) Arn't you going TO the Exposition?
(c) And every sense and every heart are joy.
| 4. Write a sentence containing infinitive, with
out subject expressed, followed by objectiv,
| predicate.
5. Writea sentence with a pronoun in apposiuol
with noun.
g. What is the distinction between The conjugatioi
of a verb and the synopsis of a verb?
and WiH?
sth and 9th. Diagram:
Atmidni2ht, in his guarded tent,
The Turk dreaming of the hour
When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his power.
TO- Parse words in italics:
3 1t is little thing to speak phrase
Of common comfort, aohich, by daily use,
Has almost lost lis sense; yet on the ear
OF him who thought to die unmourned
D twill fall
y Like choicest music.
GEOGRAPHY.
, 1. What meridian is taken The line of separate
between the Eastern and the Western hemisphere? {?
2. How do grafn-ships from San Francisco reaC
Liverpool?
3. Name and locate (siating county in which, Il
N five largest cities in Ohio, and state the cause
rs growth of each.
d 4. Locate Corsica, Van Deman's Land, and Gree
l. wich, and state for what they are noted.
IS Two men leave jackson. one going degree Nort
= the other degree West; which travels the farth
e, and why?
'r g. Define a solar year-a sideria year, and expla
l. the difference.
T. What State of the United States leads in the
duction of coal and iron?
s. 8. Give the length OF degree of longitude on
Id parallel of Is degrees.
8. Locate Yorktown, and state for what it is not
10. What Nation is best able protect itself aga
foreign invasion, and why?