The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-02-07
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U, s. HISTORY

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U. S. HISTORY.
1. What six distinct purposes are de-
clared in the enacting clause of the Con-
stitution of the United States?
2. Describe the origin of Yale College
when was it established and where first
located?
8. Which one of the Dutch Governors
of New York was the most noted?
A. Who is our present Minister to En-
gland, and how has he lately been hon
ored?
8. By what had the U. S. been governed
previous to the formation of the Consti-
tuition?
6. Give the name of the author, the sub
ject and the title of the book published
in the q. S. that has had the largest cir
culation, exerted the greatest influence,
and been most numerously translated?
7. Who was the author of the Omnibus
Bill, and what were it's provisions?
s. What was the U. S. Electoral Com
mission; how created; by whom; what
for?
9. How did the French and the English
differ in their attempts to colonize North
America, and why?
ARITHMETIC.
1. How Long must box be that no
room may be lost in packing in it books
6 inches, s inches, or II inches long?
2. have 324 acres of land in one farm
and IS acres in another. Iwish to divide
these into the largest possible fields of
equal size. How many fields will there
be, and how many acres in each field?
3. Custom millers take16 of the quanti-
ty of grain as pay for grinding it. How
many bushels must man take to mill so
that he may bring back IA bushels of
ground provender?
4. A man engaged to work a year for
$240 and suit of clothes. At the end Of
9 months an equitable settlement was
made by giving him $16s and the suit of
clothes What was the value of the
clothes?
5. The expenses of conducting
a business were 40 of the profits.
If the profits were Is of the value of the
goods sold, how much was received from
the sale of goods if the profits were $4,000
more than the expenses?
6. A cubic foot of water weighs go h. s
OF. What will be the weight or pressure
on a square yard where the sea is 20 faith
oms deep?
Z. Bought $50 barrels of pork at $21.5O
per barrel, on 80 days credit, and sold it
the same day for $21.50 per barrel, cash.
How much did I gain, money being
worth 61s per cent?
s. A man wishing to sell a horse and
cow, asked three times as much for the
horse as the cow, but, finding no purcha-
ser, he reduced the price of the horse 20
per cent, and the price of the COW 10 per
cent, and sold both for $165. What did
he get for each?
9. The sides of two square pieces of
ground are as to 5, and the sum of their
superficial contents is 10000 square feet.
What is the length of side of each?
10. Three women own ball of yarn
inches in diameter. How much of the
diameter of the ball must each wind of,
so that they may share equally?
GRAMMAR
1. Give the corresponding masculine or
feminine forms of the following nouns: !:
maid, niece, youth, roe, monk.
2. What is the difference between SEN
tences, phrases and clauses?
8. Write a sentence containing an ad-
jective clause beginning with an adverb.
4. Give the past-perfect. indicative, of
the verb ring.
5. Give the principal parts of the fol-
lowing verbs: bear Ito carry, catch, shine,
hang, light, spin.
6. Diagram:
Full many a flower is born to blush un-
seen,
And waste it's sweetness on the desert
air.
7 and s. Parse:
Drest in little brief authority
Most ignorant of aohat he's most assured,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high
heaven,
As make angels aoeep.
9. Correct the following:
(a) Me and you had went before they
come.
(b) The former of them six sentences is
incorrect.
c) When the buffalo is wounded, they
turn furiously on their pursuers, and
sometimes trample him to death.
Parse:
10. Guided thus, o friend of mine,
Let US aO0lk our little way,
Knowing by each beckoning sign,
That we are not gaIite astray.