The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-09-20

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THE following is the result of the last examination
of teachers:
Six Months-Peter Strausbaugh, James c. Webb,
Ida Gilmore.
Twelve Months-E. c. Jackson David Hays, V. C..
Martindale, David c. Evans, o. b. Randall Jno. L.
Calm, David c. Lloyd, Sherman 4. Smith, Mary E.
Horton, Lindsay A. Edwards.
Eighteen Months-Andrew r. Blair, D. W. Hun
singer, Mary L. Turner, A. E. Mclaughlin.
Twentv-four Months-Moses E. Morgan.
Sixty Months-James e. Kinnison.
oRTHoGRAPHY.
Correlative cozen, conciliate, subsidiary, change
ling, sententious sene, traicking tongue-tied, Wit
reous philippe, vitiaton, stalactite noisiness,
paraleled, pettifogger agellate hecatomb, cortege
nonchaance.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. What Empire the Western Hemisphere? !?
What republics on the Eastern?
.. Explain the origin of Coral and Oceanic Islands
8. How do Europe and Africa compare in size?
4. How many times larger is France than Ohio?
5. A. and B. start from Jackson, Ohio, A. going 10
degrees East and 10 degrees North and B. going 10
degrees North and 10 degrees East. Which goes the
longer distance, and why
g. What the official title of the chief ruler of each
of the following countries: Egypt Turkey, Russia,
Persia, Algiers, France?
Z. Bound West Virginia and tell when and why 1t
was made State?
s. Name the divisions of the Aryan branch of the
Caucasian race and state what modern nations have
descended from each division
Q. Define a solar year and siderial year and explain
the difference.
10. Give the length of degree of longitude on the
parallel As degrees also the latitude of Jackson
Ohio.
U. S. HISTORY.
l. What records show that America discovered
previous to the discovery of Columbus, and what
proofs show that it was Inhabited by race of men
T,1s
9. What was the United States Electoral Commits
sion of 1877? Who composed it? By whom it
created? For what purpose?
g. Compare relative character of the settlers of
jamestown and Plymouth.
4. When the American flag adopted? What
did Gen. Dix say about It?
g. What the Fugitive Slave Law? The Kansas
Nebraska Bill? The Dred Scott decision?
g. Name the chief motives that prompted the first
settlers to come to the United States.
T. What and where is the Western Reserve? Why
called? How created?
s. Name the first three colleges founded in the Uni
ted States. Give the origin OF the secondwhere first
located-its present location.
o. Tell all you about the Merrimac and the Mo.
itor-the Alabama and the Kearsarge.
10. Name three of the most eminent American his
torians.
ARITHMETIC.
l. How do you find the greatest common diyisor of
of fractions? The least common multiple?
z time, rate per cent ana interest being given
how do you find the principal? The principal, time,
and interest being given how do you find the per
cent? The principal interest, and rate cent. be-
ing given, how do you find the time?
3. How do you find the of parallelogram and
square? OF a rhombus? OF a trapezium? Of tri-
angle?
4. How do you find the circumference of a circle,
when the diameter is given? The diameter, when
the circumference is given? The area.
s. How do you find the convex surface of cylinder
The surface of sphere globe? The solidity Of a
sphere globe? The side of square equal In q
to any given surface?
6. What number multiplied by \ of itself will make
1862
A. keeps $500 of BIS money months and 20 days
how much money of AS can keep months, that fa-
vors will balance?
8. The diagonals of two similor rectangles 8
to II; how many times does the larger contain the
smaller?
>. The bank discount of certain at per cent.
for 10 months exceeds the true discount of the
for four months, at u per cent, by dollars and
smis. What is the sum?
TO- In extracting the square root of perfect power,
the last complete dividend found be 4725 What
WAS the power?
GRAMMAR.
l. Construct negatve-interrogative sentence
having the verb in the pastperfect
q Write a sentence in which four rules for capi-
tails shall be illustrated.
5. Correct: (a) 1t remarked of Noah Webster
tn at he had never yentured to coin but one word.
(b) If ten cents will buy three oranges, how much
will thirty cents buy?
4. Write the plural of the following words: Alum
Jack-o-lantern, Attorney eneral, sloop-
wagOn-load, and l.
5. Certainly at is heaven upon earth to have a
mans mind in charity, rest in Providence and
turn upon the poles of truth.
6. When is noun or pronoun put absolute? Illus
trate.
L. What is the relation of words ?-the agreement
of words ?-the government of words ?-the arrange
| ment of words?
s. What is pleonasm ?-and when is this figure
| allowable?
and 10. Parse:
| of chance or change, o let not man complain,
Else shall he never, never cease to paiL;
For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain
| Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale
| All feel the assaults of Fortunes tickle gale;
| Art, empire, Earth Itself, to change doomed;
Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale
And gEGS the mountains mighty mass entombed;
And where the Atlantic rolls, wide continents hay