The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-10

o. Ewing, Henry Hickman and Linn E.
McClung.
Eighteen Months-H. J. Hunter, w.
F. Steward and L. L. Evans.
II of the Is that passed are continued
for further examination in U. S. History.
The questions in History proved to be
too hard for most of the class.
The following are the questions
ORTHOGRAPHY.
Tenet, Horoscope, Ephemeral, Honor
ary, Crudely, Judgship, Rinse, Scintillant,
Varioloid, Wiseacre, Inferable, Imper-
meable, Guerilla, Forage, Encore, Dis
seiZor, Dishevel, Cubiform, Briery, Par
allelogrammical.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Give, and account for, the difference
between the equatorial and the polar di-
ameter of the earth.
2. When are the days and nights equal,
and why?
8. What are the relative positions of
the equator and the ecliptic?
4. Name five of the principal imports
and five of the principal exports of the
us.
5. Describe the seasons and the climate
of China proper. Name the countries
held and occupied by the Chinese.
6. What three natural conditions favor
the growth of commercial cities? What
four of manufacturing cities?
Z. Describe the surface of Florida, name
its leading productions, and give the prin-
cipal industries carried on at Key West.
s. Through what waters would a ship
sail in going from Bombay to Constanti-
nople?
9. What were the three principal in
ducements that led Europeans to come
to America?
TO- Locate the "West India Islands.
What chains do they form? What is
their metropolis and where situated
GRAMMAR.
/. Write a sentence containing a CO.
ordinate conjunction and a participial
phrase.
2. What lenses, of what moods can be
formed without auxiliaries?
8. Analyze: "There has been some dis
pute about who wrote Shakespeare's
plays.
4. How would you illustrate to pupil
that word is the sign or an idea?
5. Give the masculine or feminine cor
responding to the following words
Murderer, votaress, hind, hero, negro
cZar.
6. Diagram: Whatsoever thy hand
fndeth to do, do it with thy might.
Z. Give five cases where capitals should
be used, and four in which italics should
| be.
8. Parse:
Name me not death with praiseful words
noble Ulysses, 1
| Would sooner be bonded serf, the labor
er's tool to ply
To a small cotter on the heath, with
wealth exceeding small,
Than be the Lord of all the shades ir
Pluto's gloomy hall.
8. What pronouns, by their forms, dis
tinguish sex?
10. Parse:
They heard and were abashed, and ul
they sprung
Upon the wing, as aoten men, aoont tt
watch
On duty, sleeping found by whom they
dread,
Rouse and bestir themselves ere wei
awake.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Upon what is Arithmetic founded
and how are its operations carried on?
2. Upon what is the Arabic System o
Notation based? l
8. Why do we write the numbers a!
suggested by the Arithmetics, and VIII,
do we begin at the right hand to add?
4. What do the words per cent. mean
What is a commission merchant? A
consigneep A consignor?
5. What is exchange2 Domestic ex
change? Foreign exchange?
6. A young man being asked his age re
piled that if the age of his father which
was A, were added to twice his own, tht
sum would be four times his own age
Required his age.
Z. A borrows sum of money at pei
cent, payable semi-annually, and lend!
it at II per cent, payable quarterly, ant
clears $2,450.s5 year; what is the sum
s. A derives from the sum he has al
interest yearly income of $2,94o. Four
fifths of it bear per cent, and one-fiftl
bears per cent. How much money has
he out at interest?
9. A, B and G are employed to do {
piece of work for $26.45; A and B to
gether are supposed to do three-fourthI
of the work; A and G, nine-tenths; B ant
G, thirteen-twentieths; or in these pro
portions, and are paid accordingly. What
is each mans share of the money?
10. Before the Mormons left Nauvoo
for California, they boasted that theil
line of march would be "a miles long; anG
that printing establishment should &C
with the front to issue the orders of the
prophets daily for the whole line. Now
supposing they advance "a miles every Il
hours, how many miles must the herald
travel to gain the rear, he travelling two
miles to the Company's one, and each
starting at the same time? And ther
how much must he increase his speed, sc
as to regain his place at the head of the
column by the hour of encamping? And
how many miles must he travel daily?
HISTORY.
1. When was the battle of Point Pleas
ant fought, and who commanded the
forces on each side?
2. Before the Revolutionary War bat
tie was fought in Pennsylvania, in which
a British officer was defeated, and a young
American, who afterwards became dis
tinguished in history took part. By what
name is that battle known, when and
where was it fought, and what was the
name of the British officer?