The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-04-07
Agent for New No. s


AT the examination last Friday and Saturday there
SO applicants only 1G of whom received certf-
Gates, as follows:
Will. A. Longbon, Sc months.
David C. Perry and James N. Lively, Is months.
Lin f. McClung, Clara Harper Sarah A. Patterson,
John Hogan, T. s. Hogan W. r. Delay, Jane j. ones,
David Hunsinger and Lille Bierly, 12 months.
Sadie Jones, Jessie Cuppett, Alice Gillian and
John T. Herbert, months.
The following are the questions:
oRTHoGRAPHY.
Matinee desecrator, abscisson, collier circuitous,
augury osseous, oficiate, tenable, coliseum,
ter, pommel, omnscient rinse, szable, ebullition,
dishevel, vermilion, welkin, trichinae.
GRAMMAR.
l. What are defective verbs? Name them.
with sentence.
8. Name these figures of speech:
(a) Deep on his front engraven,
Deliberation sat and public care.
(b) Dear me!
(c) l came, saw, conquered.
4. Give the masculine feminine corresponding to
the following: lad swain, Czar and beau.
5. Make sentence containing adjective adyerbi-
al and an objective clause.
6. Correct and give reasons:
expected to have seen him yesterday.
You and made great mistake.
7. How are the progressive, emphatic and passive
forms of the verb formed?
s. Give three rules for the use of the comma and H.
lustrate by examples.
0. Analyze: He who ran away may not be the one
to whom referred.
10. Pass words in italics:
Whatever doing. 1Chat we suffer more,
What can suffer lcorse?
GEOGRAPHY.
l. Define Watershed, Horizon, Ecliptic and Circle
of Illumination.
2. What and where are: False Xxi, Snow and Ten
erife?
g. Name the river systems of Ohio.
4. Give the uses of snow, wind and mountains.
5. Why some districts rainless?
g. Give the northern boundary of the u S. by water
and parallel.
7. Name the counties in Ohio bordering on Michi-
gan.
s. Under what circumstances would there be no
change of seasons?
9. Name the three great physical divisions of the
US.
10. In what month is the nearest the earth, and
in what month the most distant?
ARITHMETIC.
1. If graduated circumference measures 10 #. s
inches, what will SO degrees minutes and As seconds
measure?
2. How many feet of inch lumber can be sawed from
log "a inches in diameter, and l2 feet long?
3. farmer wishes to lay off rectangular garden
containing acres with front of 200 feet certain
road how deep must he make it?
hall standing east and west, is &c feet by % feet
and II 12 feet high what is the length of the shortest
east lower corner to a northwest upper corner?
5. There are balls whose diameters respective
y g. T. and inches. What is the diameter of fourth
ball. of the density equal in weight to the three
g. A, and pasture an equal number of cattle upon
field of which A and are the owners-A of acre:
and of 15 If pays s2i for his pasturage how
much should and B each receive?
7. A and go into partnership each with si50o.
draws $780, and $780, the end of months, ant
each the at the end of and months at tht
loF 4l,n,- ha,vr hnx
settle?
s. and start together for certain fort. A, who
travels 12 miles per day, after travelling days. turn
back far had Travelled during those days; h'
then turns and pursues his way towards the fort
where both arrive together Is days from the time the!
set out. At what rate did travel?
How many bushels of shelled corn, corn on th
cob corn not shucked, will wagon bed hold tha
is 10 1-2 feet long, 12 feet wide, and feet deep?
TO- How many are there in square field con
tanning many there are boards in the fenc
nclosing it, if the boards II feet long, and tn
fence boards high?