The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-02-27
BOARD OF SCHOOL EXAMINERS.
List Of Questions PrOpOunded Satur-
day, February %, 1854.
Names Of Teachers Receiving Certif-
Gates.

HISTORY.
Give an account Of the treatment Of Quakers
by the Euritans.
When were the first Negroes brought to
America Where landed
Describe the policy Of Parliament toward
the colonies.
What was done by the first Continental
| Congress? By the second?
Why were the Articles Of Confederation in
sufficient.
What was the financial condition and policy
Of the Government in JaCksOns Administra-
tiOn2
What was the Kansas-Nebraska bill. It's
consequences?
Mention three decisive battles Of the Rebel
hon and name the commander on each side.
What led to the financial crisis of 1872
What led to the impeachment of Andrew
Johnson? To the murder Of President Gar
field?
GEOGRAPHY.
Name and define the divisions of geography.
What divisions Of South America border on
the Atlantic? Give capital and form of gov
ernment of each
Why do the northern trade-winds blow from
the northeast, and the Gulf Stream flow to-
ward the northeast?
Name the islands composing the Empire Of
Japan.
Name the divisions of the Aryan branch of
the Caucasian race and state what modern
nations have descended from each
Why are the tropics and polar circles located
where they are.
Locate three cities in each hemisphere on or
near the 4Oth parallel.
Locate and describe six physical divisions
| of South America.
| What would be the width Of the temperate
| zones, were the earth's inclination 4Q degrees
Locate and tell for what uoted Java, Ischia,
Smyrna, Tonquin, San Domingo Lucknow
and Galena.
GRAMMAR.
| What is the pos5essiye plural Of youth?
What is the number of such nouns as ueWs,
ways, measles, optics, ashos2
| BE Of the same mind one to another. Parse
one.
/ Punctuate so as to make sense, the following
| What you say You said is not what he SAYS
| you said about what ] said
/ Tell which OF the following verbs are mOdi-
| fed and by what She is a queen. He is called
| James Him know. They are williams Me
| you did not SEQ. belieye Jane to be mistaken.
/ Write sentences containing the following
| nouns and modify them by nouns i'm appOsi-
| ton: Henry Clay, Frankfort, Hume, Andrew
Jackson, LOngfelow.
! Correct the capitals in these sentences. and
| punctuate them What said he how looked he
stay.
Correct the errors in the following words
! striped, gass blueish. begging Ceasless, sale
! able, mOnllies, MOsketOs.
| When should we use shall? When 7rU?
Analyze by diagram this sentence:
Il saw him kiss your cheek
'Iis true.
o Modesty Twas strictly kept,
He thought me asleep; at least, knew
He thought 1 thought he thought 1 slept"
ARITHMETIC.
Bought 10 bu oats at 37}5c per bu; sold them
at 15c per half peck. Per cent. Of gain2
Cost Of excayating a cellar 8OX35 IT and 8 fl
deep at 42c per Gu yd2 Expense Of wal
around it - tt thick at 1915 a perch?
Ans S34S.44. S41S.1S.
Cost Of flooring a room 2Ox25 fl with III
inch flooring at S25 per M, allowing : fol
matching2 Ans. S2l Og9S.
Find interest Of 100000 for 45 seconds a
| 8 per cent. Ans. .O1.
Which is more profitable and how much pei
ton, to sell sugar at lie per 10 or 23c per kilo
Ans 5000
A clothier sold two suits of clothes, each al
the same price. On one he gained 20 per cent
on the other he lost 20 per cent. He lost 81
by the operation. Cost of each
Ans $50 and 500.
If exchange is at a per cent. prem. wha
will q draft for 81, 500 cost, bought in Hillsbor
ON Dayton, o., payable in 60 days withou
grace? Ans. 81 4S1.1Sl(.
8 If S18O support 8 grown persons and
children 3 weeks, what will it cost to support
{ persons and 6 children weeks, if it costs =
as much to support a child? Ans. S7lO.76.
Volume of q cone whose slant height is l3 T
> and diameter of base 10 It?
Ans. 31Al6 Gu IT.
A tells the truth 2 times in 8, b 8 times in 4
and O II times i'm H. What is the probabilit
} of a thing being true which A aud B afiiru
Z and denies? ? Ans. "a to p that it is true.