The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-11

A third sheet presents the following arith-
metlcal propositions, requiring each operation TO
be given in full:
Question during the fiscal year 1884. the OK.
portation of cotton from certain American ports
as follows: New Orleans 7O3 sos DIS pounds; Bal
tmore, "a, $50 654 pounds New York. 278, 358, $50
pounds; Yorktown IL 2OS 246 pounds; Galveston,
100, 574, 067 pounds. What the total number Of
pounds exported from the ports named?
Question 2-The total debt of the United States,
July 81, 1884 was 81, 851, 600 $50 90 and the
cash in the Treasury the date $4O5,-
$40 O03.95. What was the total debt less the cash
in the Treasurys
Question 3-Thrty-six clerks are TO distribute 49,
OOOletters a certain day. Half of the clerks
experienced men and half of them men, If each
experienced man does twice as much man, how
many letters will be distributed by each and by
each class of men?
Question 1.-The postmaster at Norwich made
requistion for the following postage stamps: 100
sheets of 1-cent, 80 sheets Of 2-cent, IS sheets
of Scent and 81 sheets of 10cent stamps. What
was the money value OF these stamps each sheet
tanning 100 stamps?
Question 5-Write in figures one million one thou.
sand and one hundred dollars and seven cents.
Question 6-There were handled BY the railway
postal clerks in year 2 1856 213 $50 letters and
postal cards, and ,27S 756 765 pieces of other mail
matter. One committed for every 1905
pieces handled What was the total number of errors
committed
Question 7-How many mail bags containing LIZ
yards OF cloth each can be made from bolt OF 80
yards and what the cost of the cloth per yard the
cost of each bag being 50 cents?
Question 8-The total revenues Of the Postof6ce
Department for the fiscal year 1882. were SAL S76-
40 10, and the expenditures for postmasters' sal
aries for the same time $8. 964. 676.72. What per-
centage of the did the salaries to?
a fourth sheet requires the applicant to write
a letter addressed to the Postmaster general
giving statement of the writer's views Of the
American post-office system and its importance
to the business of the country. This exercise is
designed 1.-THE sheet explains) chiefly to test the
writer's skill in simple English composition and
his knowledge of the rules of punctuation.
The fifth and last sheet in yesterdays exami-
nation asked the following:
Question Name the States and Territories of Che
Union lying wholly or partly west of the Rocky
mountains
Question 2-Name five eapes and FIVE bays on the
Atlantic coast of the United States.
Question 3-Name ten of the chief railroad centers
in New York and New England.
Question 4-Name the States in which the following
cities situated: Detroit Savannah Hartford Los
Angeles. Houston, Natchez, Ann Arbor, Milwaukee,
Elmra, Dayton.
Question 5-Name the five leading railroads termi.
mating at New York.
cities: Jersey City, Albany Cleveland st. Louis. Chi.
cago, New Orleans, naming the waters on which they
situated and the part of the State in which they
are found
Question (which are the chief towns you would
pass in going by rail direct from this place to Nash
VILE Tenn?
Question s-Name five rivers, five lakes. five bays,
and five mountain peaks of the United States.
The carriers examination differed slightly
from the foregoing; for one thing it required
answers to a greater number Of geographical
questions Of course, the sheets used are differ
ent at each examination.