The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-09-18
Teachers Examination.

Teachers Examinations.
AT the last examination of teacher
there were % applicants, II of whom re
ceived certificates, as follows:
For 1 year: A. V. Evans, David L
Heath, John Heath, James Kirkendall
Thos. j. Evans, Abbie Pierce.
For 2 years: S. S. Ferguson, d. E
Steward, Letitia Buckley, Sarah E. White
Alice Watt, Gineyra Inman.
The following are the questions:
ORTHOGRAPHY.
| COmplaiSant Inferable AnnaliSe Bri-
tannic, Mnemonic, Aqueous, Penniless
Roguish, Cayenne Macaroni, Gauging
Sorghum, Malfeasance, Mignonette, Cri-
tique, Aborigines, Burgher, Apothegm,
Nescience, Herbaceous.
HISTORY.
1. What was the object and result of De
Narvaez' explorations?
2. When and where was the first colony
founded on the continent?
5. When, where, and by whom, was the
first permanent settlement in the United
States? The second?
f. Who first attempted to form English
settlements in America? When and
where was the first English settlement
made in the United Sites?
| 5. Where was the first permanent set
tlement made by the Dutch? BY the
French?
| 6. When and where was fought the bat
tie of Bunker Hill? Who were the COM
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force of each army, and the loss?
7. What was the Dred Scott decision?
What did John Brown attempt to do?
s. What event signalized the commence
ment of the civil war? Where was the
first blood shed in this war?
9. How did Elmer E. Ellsworth meet
his death? When was fought the battle
of Bull Run, and with what result?
10. Name the Presidents in their order.
| Which three eX-Presidents died on the
4th of July?
GEOGRAPHY.
1. What is the area of the entire surface
of the globe? What country contains the
greatest number of inhabitants in pro-
portion to it's area?
the Mississippi? Of the Amazon? How
wide is the mouth of the Amazon?
8. What is monarchy? An aristocra-
cy? A democracy?
4. Name five of the principal articles
exported by the people of the United
States. Name five of the principal arti-
cles imported
5. Name five of the largest cities in the
world in the order of population.
6. On what does the temperature of a
place depend?
Z. What spices are in common use in
the various countries of the globe? What
are the principal narcotics used in the
different parts of the globe?
8. What would be the condition of South
America providing the Ande were on the
Atlantic coast?
8. How wide is Behring Strait? Gil
braltar? Dover? Isthmus of Panama?
SueZ? Tehauntepec?
10. Where is the Isthmus of Kraw?
Which is the most elevated lake in the
world?
ARITHMETIC.
l. Into what is number resolved by
division? By evolution? By subtrac-
ton?
?. Show that every number is either
perfect square, or the sum of either two,
or three or four, perfect squares.
3. A man sold peaches for a cent apiece
and gained 10 per cent. What was the
cost of each?
4. A man bought 80 apples at for a
cent, and 80 more at 3 for cent.
He sold them all at for 9 cents,
and lost cent by the transaction. Ex-
plain his loss.
5. A man buying 60 pears, bought 3-5
of them at for cents, and the remain
der at for cents. For what must he
sell each pear to gain 33 1-3 per cent, sell
ing them all at the same price?
6. If rectangular piece of land is 10
by 100 rods, what is the length and width
of similar piece containing acres?
7. A crown composed of gold and alloy
and weighing 10 lbs, being PLACED in wa
| ter, displaced "a lbs, while 10 lbs. of gold
displaced so lbs, and 10 lbs. of alloy dis
placed .92 lbs. How much gold and how
much alloy did the crown contain?
s. A man having an estate of $1,000, di-
rected that if his daughter lived and his
son died his wife should have 3-5 of his
estate; but that if the son lived and the
! daughter died, the wife should have 2-5
of the estate. If son and daughter both
lived how should the estate be divided !?
9. There is a park 16 rods square, and a
gravel walk is made around it containing
1864 of the whole area of the park. How
wide is the walk?
10. Suppose man standing on the
bank of a river, desires to know the dis
tance to any visible object on the other
side of the stream; how can he find this
distance, providing he has nothing but a
ten-foot pole?
| GRAMMAR.
1. How should either, neither, each
other, and one another be used?
2 What is gender? What is the differ
ence between gender and sex?
What is said of the gender of collective
nouns?
3. What is the basis of grammar?
What are the elements of language?
4. How are one, other, and another de-
clined?
8. When is a noun or pronoun in the
same case as another?
, What may the subordinate term be?
g. What ending to the verb does thou
, generally require?
He, she, or it, in the present Indicative:
I. What are the elements of sentence
Into what classes can these be divided
{ and 10. Parse:
, Thus Caesar, gOd-like, to the pilot cries:-
Superior to despair, the waves despise,
And the vain threat ming of the angry skies;
Though gods deny thee yon Italian strand,
Yet go, charge thee, go at my command.
To ignorance alone ascribe thy cares,
Not kHOUing what freight thy vessel bears.
Let and ndsl lond W. Wi