The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-08-20
AT the last examination of teachers

For years, Ira l.. Jones, H. J. Hunter
d. L. Morgan, VIM. Nick. Davis, J. "
| Kinneer.
For years, Albert Q. Parks.
The following are the questions:
oRTHoGRAPHY.
outrageous, Efficacious, Exhilarate
Venezuela, Erasable, Incarcerate, Oculist
Nutritious, Terrestrial, Contagious, In
sensate, Citron, Flageolet, Fledgeline
Parochial, Pennant, Sullenness, Talisman
Trachea, Unbiased.
HISTORY.
1. Who was the first to circumnavigatt
the globe? Who was the first Englisf
circumnavigator of the globe? In what
length of time was the voyage made?
2 When did Columbus discover the
mainland? How many voyages did hi
make? What valuable plants were dis
covered in America?
8. What territory was granted to the
London Company? The Plymouth Com
pany? Who sent out the settlers tc
Jamestown?
4. Who discovered the Pacific? The
Mississippi? The st. Lawrence? The
Hudson?
5. Who was the first English slave
trader? What nation first introduced
negro slavery into the United States?
6. Who was the first child born in
America of European parents? Of En-
glish parents?
7. What daring exploit was performed
by Washington, December 26, 1776?
s. What was the Missouri Compromise :?
Who proposed it? What was the nature
of the Monroe doctrine?
8. Who issued the Emancipation Proc
1amation? The General Amnesty Proc
lamation?
10. When and to whom did the garrison
of Vicksburg surrender? To whom did
Lee and johnson surrender?
GEOGRAPHY.
1. What is a compass? It's cardinal
points? intermediate points?
2. Reckoning from the meridian at
what is the latitude and
longitude of Quito?
3. What large city in Asia is nearly
Philadelphia?
4. Describe the Gulf Stream.
5. How many kinds of government?
Define each,
6. What Country has the longest and
most numerous lines of railroads?
Z. Why does so little rain fall on that
part of South America west of the
Andes?
s. What are the leading pursuits of the
people of the Eastern States?
9. Bound and describe the County in
which you reside
TO- What is longitudinal valley? A
transverse valley? Where is the largest
Known crater in the world?
ARITHMETIC.
1. I have pile of wood containing one
ord and worth 81. A agrees to chop it
or So and take his pay in wood out of
he pile. How much of the wood does he
ret?
,rofit and takes eggs in payment. If one
gg in each dozen is bad, what is his per
ent of net gain?
3. A bankrupt's liabilities are three
lines as great as his assets. A creditor
old his goods at 25 per cent. above cost.
What per cent. did he lose?
T. By selling an article for SIS less than
is value lost Is per cent. Had L sold it
or Sc more than 1 did,. what per cent.
would 1 have gained?
5. Two pounds of tea and six pounds of
ugar cost 1920; if sugar were to rise so
ost $266. Find the price per pound of
ca and sugar.
6. By means of false weights, man in
'uying and selling, cheats 10 per cent. in
ach transaction. Find his fraudulent |
ain per cent?
7. A man sold IA bushels of wheat and
6 bushels of oats for 1882 He received |
or the wheat, 80 cents a bushel more |
han for the oats. Find the price of each |
er bushel.
s. The map of Manitoba is drawn ON a
Gale of miles to the inch. What will |
aiming 16O acres?
8. A. and B. buy the apples in a barrel |
or 1925. B. pays Is cents and A. the re-
nainder. 1t costs B. 25 cents to deliver
he apples, and A. gives Is cents for the
arrel which B. keeps. If they share the
pples equally, who owes the other, and
ow much?
10. When two trains, one 210, and the
ther 230 feet long, starting together on
he same line, were going forward in the
anne direction on parallel tracks, the one
assed the other in Is seconds; but when
tarting and going under the above con-
itions, and at their former rates of speed,
kept that they moved in opposite di-
ections, they passed each other in 81
econds. How many miles an hour did
ach move?
GRAMMAR.
1. In what does a knowledge of the
etters in the English alphabet consist?
2. Define Orthography, Etymology.
yntaX. Give the literal meaning of each
7Ord.
3. What notifications have nouns?
IN what is each founded?
A. What is the abridged form of an ad-
ective clause?
5. Name the different offices of aohat,
nd but.
g. Compare worse, further, many, well,
ext, and out.
7, Il s. Parse:
Teach me to love and TO forgive;
Exact my own defects to
What others to feel; and
Knon myself
8. When is noun or prOnoun in the
anne case as another? What NAV the
term be?
10. Parse:
y We exhorted them to trust in God,
nd to lO0e one another.
y Who speaks the truth sta6s lsehood to the heart
And his mere words make despots trembLe more
Than cuer Brutus with his dagger could.
l am always at loss when I speak of
he great store of Mrs. n. J. Graham, as
he keeps so great a variety of goods