The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-12-12
BOARD OF SCHOOL EXAMINERS.
List Of Questions PrOpOunded-Teach-
ers Certificates.



1. What constitutes the relief Of country?
| Describe the relief of S. America.
2. Name the most northern, eastern, southern
and western points of s. America.
3. Bound Iowa, name its cities, rivers and
productions.
4. Name and describe the plant regions Of the
| Us
5. What is the difference between the Capital
and Capitol of the u. e.?
6. Describe the Japan Current.
z. Define fauna, monsoon, mOraine, bifur-
cation and temperature
g. Name the kind of government and religion
/ Of Italy, France Germany, Brazil and China.
g. What are EqninOXes2 How many and what
are they2 When do they occur
10. What and where are Heca, COrea, Green
wich, Bremen, Don and Maracaybo2
GRAMMAR.
1. Write short sentences containing examples
Of the fOuOwing (a) An abstract noun. (b)
perfect parhciple. (c) An objective element
Of third class
2. What popularity has the verb to be in re-
speCt to number and per5On2
3. Give the plural Of index, goose-quill,
grouse, brace.
4. Tell the number Of elementary sounds in
tree, home, coat might, beau and owe.
8. Give the feminine gender of the fOllOWing
deacon, giant, car, hart and gillie.
6. Decline us, who, boy, thy, and herself
z. Give your opinion Of these. (a) He comes
from over the sea. (b) The horse ran mile
| Co. do not care straw. (b) He is worth
million.
8. Diagram the analysis of-Ca) Thyroid and
thy statf, they comfort me. Cb) Well, thisis the
forest of Arden.
9. Write out the parts Of lie, lay, go, and saw
10. Diagram the analysis Of the following:
q "The desplteful act
OF SATAN done in Paradise and how
He i'm the serpent had perverted Eve,
Tarh hr7aI aIor 1aHa 20, 90 10 HIrs gNo1E Evs14sA
Was known in Heav'n."
ARITHMETIC.
If A makes a shoe in "a of a day, B in % Of
a day, how many shoes can both make In
| day2 II shoes.
Write in words the product of .O59z, O59r. &c.
How much inch rope will be required to
wrap round a cylinder from bottom TO top,
| passing times round, If it is 10 feet long and
! ! foot in diameter2 22.64 feet.
| The weight Of two similar cylinders are as /
| to Ga. What is the ratio Of their diameters2
i or as to 4.
At what time between 8 and 6 o'clock will
! the minute hand be midway between u and
/ the hour hand2 13 1923 minutes past 5.
/ Find the simple, compound and annual in
tereBt Of 81, 200 for years at per cent, per
Sin. 48O, com. s56s 1900, An. s556.sO.
/ The rafters of a house are IS feet long on
each side and rise feet in the middle. How
! wide is the hOuse2 "a feet.
Reduce degree 70 minutes 53 seconds to
the decimal Of a right angle. .0l85
If this room we're 30 feet square what is the
] shortest distance a caterpillar could travel
from one lower corner to the diagonal upper
corner 5l.6l feet.
HISTORY.
What vas the population Of the United
States when the FIRST census was taken
What was the population Of the United
States when the sixth census was taken
How many have been taken What Was the
last2
When did constitution go into operation?
Who invented the magnetic telegraph
When2
When and where did Lee surrender to
Grant2
When was gold discovered in California? BY
WhOm2
r When and by whom was the Atlantic Tsle-
gragh Gable laid2
Define history as sacred, proiane, modern
and ancient.
Give name Of the ablest writer Gn your
Opinion) in each class.