The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-13
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Arthur have girl baby

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At the examination last week there were p appli-
cants, IA of whom received certificates as follows
24 months-W H. Hays and F. NJ. Jacobs.
IS months-E. H. Chandler, S. d. Mclaughlin,
Chas S. Gibbons, E. Edmund Evans, W. NICK. Da-
Wis, Isaac Parry, w. F. Steward, T. j. Davis and
May Handley.
II months-Lola Kfnnison and Lille NJ. Erwin.
months-Elma ii. Long.
The following were the questions:
oRTHoGRAPHY.
Corporeal, Allegation. Gamut, Decension Annalize
Muzzling, Copyist, Rouge, Patrician, Elision,
Prescious, Position, Eligible, Inhibition, Saable
Feasible, Cimeter, Zaccheus, Ferrule Barreled.
U. s. HISTORY.
1. Give account of the settlement of the Caro-
linas.
guish himself?
g. Give Gates ability as a General ard give reasons
for your belief.
A. On what occasion, by whom and to whom were
these words uttered: Millions for defense, not
cent for tribute?''
5. Who was the great fnancier of the Revolution !?
6. What the most important event of Jeffer-
sons administration? Why?
7. Give account of the annexation of Texas to the
Union.
5. Why did Webster remain in Tyler's cabinet
when all the other members had resigned.
9. What imported question settled by the En-
peror of Germany during Grants Administrations
10. Why did Hayes veto the bill to restrict Chinese
immigration?
GEOGRAPHY.
l. Give the of each continent in square miles.
?. What degree of longitude separates the eastern
from the western continent?
3. What is the height of the atmosphere, and how
is Its weight ascertained?
Name the rainless regions of the western conti-
nent.
5. Where on the western continent is the greatest
annual rainfall?
6. BY what is the trend mountain chains deter
| mined, and to what does it correspond?
{. What is the length of degree of longitude in
| lattude.40?-in 60?
What three States of this Union lead in the pro-
| duction of butter and cheese?
g. Name the two great cotton States.
10. Name the three branches of the Caucasian
| ARITHMETIC.
| 1. What two numbers when added make e5 and
when you halve and double the other the results
| are equal?
2. AS money is s3;S per cent more than BIS. BIZ
is so per cent than C's C's is 1873 per CEN
more than DIS. All together have s21oo. How mucf
| has each?
8. BY selling at ss15 cts. per pound twice as much
is gained as by selling at 20 cts. pound What pei
cent is gained by selling at % cents per pound?
4. The diagonals of two similar rectangles are as
to IL; how many times does the larger contain th
smaller?
S. A received $780, and s29 20, from Joint spec
uIation; if invested s7.sss more than B. what dl,
| each invest?
out which he reserved 10 yards, and sold the re
mainder for s2s, gaining 1-6 many the yar
| as one yard cost him. How many yards did he buy
| and at what price?
7. What integer is that whose square root is time
| It's cube root?
s. If A and B, with working half time can bull
a wall in q days; and c, with D working half time
in "a days; c and D, with working half time in
days; d and A, with working half time in 80 days
how long would it take all together?
8. A field is Is rods wide, and how long kno'
not; but we know that If 100 square rods adde
to the side, the field would be square. How Ion
is the field?
10. grocer, at one straight cut, took off segmer
ofa cheese which had 4 of circumference, an
weighed pounds; what did the whole cheese weigh
GRAMMAR.
l. How may declarative sentence be made Inter
rogative?
2. Is the expression most all men, for "almost a
men, incorrect? If so why?
3. Name noun plural in form and singular
use, having two purals differing in sgnifcatio
| one having the same form in both numbers.
l. We thoupht tiresome O walk a mile Schoc