The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-04-12

At the examination last week there were 10 appli-
cants 10 of whom received certificates, follows:
SIX months-I. n. scothorn and Alice Dever.
One year-H. V. speelman, l.. NJ. Gillian, VIM. w.
Smith, Morgan Evans and W. s. Callahan.
Eighteen enthusiastically Hogan.
Three years-John F. Shock.
Five years-Geo. W. Fry.
The following the questions:
oRTHoGRAPHY.
RESTAURANT macadamize, witticism, efervesee, cor
pusce, chrysalis, currice, geysers, viscid, chay-
beate, nautilus, Centaur stereotype Pyrenees, de-
ctduous receptacle civilian, Vespucci amphibious,
physique.
l. Who was Rogers Williams, and for what was he
banished?
?. When, where, and by whom, the first print
ing press established in America?
3. What course did Cromwell pursue toward the
American colonies?
4. What was the Embargo act?
5. What is the Monroe Doctrine?
9. What was our national debt at the close of the
last war?
Z. What were the Alabama Claims?
s. In what does against the United States
consist?
Where do all bills raising revenue originate
10. When and how often does Congress assemble
GEOGRAPHY.
1. What the three great physical regions of the
United States what particular occupation is each
| fitted, and why?
2. South of what cape the and rice growing
region?
3. What are geysers, and where is the great geyser
region of the United States?
4. In what State and in what lake does the Connec
ticut river rise?
| 5. What two streams form the head waters of the
| Missouri?
What do the terms latitude and longitude signify
and what is remarkable about the 4Oh parallel north
| latitude?
7. Name and locate the country crossed by the
Senegal and Gambia rivers.
g. Where is the island of Bornea and for what Is ii
noted?
| 9. Locate Finland; Lapland; Rupert Land.
TO- Give the of all the members of the Cabinet
under the present Administration.
GRAMMAR.
l. Form the plural of the following: Radius Timo-
| thy, Man-eater, Talisman.
2. Give ten words commonly used propositions
3. Compare bad, beautiful, evil top, out.
4. What is the object of studying Grammar.
5. In what ways may the number of nouns be deter
mined?
6, By what pronouns inanimate things persona
| fed?
T. Name the different offices of what, that, and but
and illustrate them.
8. Correct the following and give your
| sons:
(a) He throwed it into the river, for seen him
when he done it.
(6) She sets by the open window enjoying the
scene that lays before her.
o. What is the difference between, If 1t rains, and
| If it rain?
| Parse:
10. All hope excluded thus, behold, instead
| Ofus Outeast, exhiled, his new delight,
| Mankind created and for him this uorld.
ARITHEETIC.
l. The fore-wheel of carriage is 12 #. inches III
circumference, and turns round 1900 times in going
certain distance; how many times will the hind
Wheel which is II it, inches in circumference, turn
in going the distance?
| 2. At what time between u and l O'Clock do tn.
hour and minute hands of clock, point in directions
directly opposite?
3. If school room is u it. high how many square
feet must it have the floor in order that 60 pupils
and the teacher may eachave 800 cubic feet of air9
A. If inches of rain fall upon the roof of house
#. wide and 90 it. long, and If this rainwater is al
conveyed to cylindrical cistern that 10 it, in diam
eter, how much will it fill the cistern?
| 5. How many cubic inches in grindstone which II
it. in diameter, and inches thick, and has hole
inches square in the center?
g. In triangular field of corn, the numbers of hills
in the successive rows in arithmetical progress
sion. In the first there is hill in the last
there 81 hills and in the whole field 1851. How
many there?
7. A owns 72O B 1856, and 1875 rods of land. They
agree divide it into equal lots fixing the great
est number of rods for lot that will allow each
to lay out all his land. How many lots can they lay
out?
s. capitalist derives from the he has at inter
est yearly income of $294. As of 1t bears per cen
| ana l-o D per cent low mucn mas ne AT interest!
g. Two men hire carriage for $40 to go to the lake
100 miles distant and retnrn. They have the priyi
lege of taking in three Having 40 miles
they take in JONES' at the lake they take in Rick
when within 80 miles Of home, they take in Brock
How much should each pay?
10. man left to his sons, whose ages were 13, Il
and II years. $4,000, to be divided in such
that each share being put at interest at per cent
shonld give to each the same amount when he at
tanned the age of q what the share Of each