The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-09-08

AT the examination last week there % appll-
cants, 16 of whom received certificates, follows:
| Six months-Albert V. Evans and Ada Henson.
Twelve months-Merrick NJ. Evans, John /. G fhm
Ella Watkins, Sarah E. White, Henry Hickman, Mary
| o. Lively and David Hays.
Eighteen months-J. W. kinneer, Mollie Burke
and league Ray.
Twenty-four months-J. c. Stevenson and j. K
Stewart.
Thirty-six months-W. J. Kirkendall.
| The following were the questions:
oRTHoGRAPHY.
Delectabe, exonerate, excrescence, iquefy, matin
matricide OPTIMISM oscillate, quntessence sacchar
ine scalene satellite scintillate, schedule speciality
spinach complaisance, canticle caricature, desue-
tude
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Name and describe each class of islands.
.. Give the greatest depth and the mean depth OF
the ocean.
3. Name and define the four oceanic movements.
4. In what directions and through what waters
would vessel sail in going from London to Canton
5. From New York to San Francisco?
6. Name the different religious systems, and give
the predominant features of each.
Z. What is opium! What is tobacco and when was
it first used by the white race?
s. Name the most important grain crop in the Unit
ed States, and the five States producing the most.
9. What metal be most enhanced in value, by
the labor expended upon it?
10. What is money, and how much gold is in circu-
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GRAMMAR.
l. What is the difference in the proper of the
relatives Dh0, Uhich and that?
9 Give the partciples of the verbs, Sit lay lie, to
recline) and
g. Write sentence containing verb in the infni-
tive mode subject and prepositional phrase in
the predicate.
4 and 5. Diagram:
Multitudes of little floating clouds,
Ere we, who saw, of change conscious, pierced
Through their ETHEREAL texture had become
Vivid as fire.
9th and 7tll. Parse:
WRat conscience dictates to be done,
Or warns not to do;
This teach more than hell to SAun,
That more than heaUen pursue.
s. Write sentence containing complex adjective
element of the Sd class.
o. What are notifications?
TO- When a in the objective in the predicate
with the verb to be? Give examples.
ARITHMETIC.
l. What is tax? tariff?
2. What is percentage? Insurance.?
3. What is bond? coupon?
4. How do you find mean proportional between two
numbers?
s. merchant sold lace collar for s15-16 that had
cost him $500. What per cent. did he make?
6. and Jointly have fortune of s9,snO invests
a sixth part of his property in business and fifth
part of his when 1t appears that each has equal
sum remaining. How much had each at first?
capitalist derives from the sum he has at inter-
yearly income of s2,9IO Four-ffths of it bear
per cent, and one-ffth five per cent. How much
money has he out at interest?
s. Together and can trim 100 rods of hedge in a
day; trim 10 rods than B. and 20 more than
c. What is the least extent of hedge that would af
ford them each Separately and all together work for
enact number of days?
8. Two persons start from two different points and
travel toward each other. When they meet the faster
traveller is found to have gone 80 miles farther than
the slower 1t would require days for the slower
travel the faster mans journey, and only days
the faster to travel the journey of the slower. Re-
quired the distance between them when they set
TO- Suppose pole on horizontal plane to be 10 it..
in height. Atwhat height from the ground must it
be cut off, that the tops of it may fall point 55
from the bottom of the pole; the end where it is
OFF, resting on the upright part?