The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-06-14

RigdOn.
For Five Years: David D. Evans,
William A. Persons, William A. Long
bon.
The following are the questions:
ORTHoGRAPHY.
Chocolate, juiciness, demurrer, purchas-
able, antique, veranda, sobriquet, gaseous,
cacique, Portuguese rhythmical, fantasy,
vassal, weevil, orrery, beleaguer, porphy-
ry, cohesible, desuetude, psychology.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. To what race do the Hindoos belong?
The Turks? The Abyssinians? The
Lapps?
2. Who were the first white inhabitants
of Australia?
3. What is civilization? Give an exam
pie of each grade.
4. What is the prevailing religion of
South America? Western Asia? China?
Russia?
5. What is the density of the earth?
6. What per cent. of salt does sea-water
contain?
7. Locate the Dead Sea. Why so called !?
s. What causes the inundation of the
Nile? For what distance does it receive
no tributaries, and why?
g. Is the climate of islands and sea-
boards more equable or more variable
than that of other places, and why?
10. What are Corsica, Elba, st. Helena,
and Juan Fernandez, and for what are
they noted2
ARITHMETIC.
1. Explain the uses of the words carat
and grain, in compound numbers.
2. Division is said to be ga short meth
cd of subtraction" Explain this.
8. Multiplication is said to be ga short
method of addition" If true, why would
you not call + II + 81 As a multipli-
cation?
4. On what principle is cancellation
founded?
5. In finding the greatest common divi-
sor of two numbers, why do you divide
the divisors by the remainders respective
ly preceding?
6. Jones owns a prairie 320 rods long
and $50 rods wide, and wishes to lay it off
into the smallest practicable number of
square fields. What will be their size
and number?
I. A captain sending out so more than
II of his men, has left 90 more than a
of them. How many has he?
s. The amount of a certain principal at
interest, 12 per cent, was just times the
principal. What was the time?
9. In ten years $3.50 los. amounted to
e4OO 16s What was the rate?
10. A merchant puts a capital of Ss5 500
out at per cent. interest, and ~ years
afterwards, another sum of $4,000 at per
cent. If he leaves these two capitals
constantly at simple interest, in how
many years from the time of the first loan
will he have drawn the same amount of
interest from both?
GRAMMAR.
| 1. Write the plurals of the following
nouns: Colony, galley, beau, molasses,
Frenchman, apparatus.
2. How are adjectives compared? Give
examples of the irregular comparison of
adiectiyes and adyerbs.
8. By what pronouns are inanimate
things personifed? In personification,
when is the masculine pronoun used, and
when the feminine?
4. Above me are the Alps, the palaces OF
nature, whose vast walls have piaanacled
in clouds their snowy scGlps.
She being down, / have the placing of
| the British crown.
5. Write correctly:
(a) Try and see how well you can 1e-
cite
| (b) The elm is not as tall as the pine.
| (c) He seldom or ever went to church
(D Faithful boys have always and al
ways will learn the lessons.
G. Write a sentence containing an ad-
jective and an adverbial phrase.
7. Give the rules for forming the pos
sessive case of nouns. Illustrate.
! 8. Give mode and tense of the following
verbs:
If he eoere here he a0ouzd enjoy this.
If [ had had time, I should haze aorit-
ten.
[ wish 1 acre in Dixie.
He could not haze gone, had he re-
Daai71ed.
| & 10. Parse;
| And Ardennes waves above them her green leGUes,
Deny with Natures tear-drops, as they pass,
! GaicUing if aught inanimate e'er grieyes,
Over the unreturning brave,-alas
Ere evening to be trodden like the grass,
| Which now beneath them, but above shall grow
| In its next verdure, when the fiery mass
| OF living Yalor, rolling on the foe,
And burning with high hope, shall mouder cold aud
low
HISTORY.
1. What was the foremost maritime ma
tion on the globe during the 18th century d?
?. What were the Mecklenberg Resolu-
tions?
$. What three foreign treaties were
made during Washington's administra-
ton?
4. How did cotton become profitable :?
5. Name the first State formed from
the Northwest Territory, the first Cover
nor of the Territory, and give date of
admission into the Union.
6. What were the great events of
Buchanan's term?
7, Describe the financial oondition and
policy of the Government during Lin
coins administration.
s. Describe General Morgan's raid north
of the Ohio.
8. What scientific improvements were
or use during the civil war?
10. When and by whom was the 18th
Amendment to the Constitution pro-
claimed?l
Is the howling of dog always fol-
lowed by death?" asked a little girl Of
her father Mot ALWAYS. my dear.