Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-02
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Questions that are Asked Applicants
for GOvernmrnt Positions.

following words and spell them correctly !:
buisnes excede achievement
seperate n prescious recommendation
beauro , Leakage believe
chartay emenate registered
storage OCCASION TONNAGE
guager prinseple abcense
In mathematics the following exam
pies were given out:
Question /. During the fiscal year
1884 the expectation of cotton from GER
tain American ports was as follows:
New Orleans, 7os, s9s;o1s pounds; Bal
timore, "a, $40, ,654 pounds; New York,
278, 25S, $50 pounds; Yorktown, II 2OS,
s45 pounds; Galveston, 100, STA, OCT
pounds. What was the total number Of
pounds exported from the ports named9
How long win it take fifty clerks to
count 81, 500, 900 in silver coin, one half
of which is in half f-dollars and the other
half in quarter dollars, each clerk count
ing at the rate Of fifty pieces a minutel
Write in figures one million one thous-
and and one dollars and one cent.
Multiply O57, 1874 by 5000.
The whole number of pieces of mail
matter handled at liz postofaces was a.
143, SIS, $50. What was the average num-
Der Of pieces for each Officer
In the fourth subject the following
samples are selected from the many
given out:
Express in your own language, at
greater length and in good prose, chang
ing the principal words, the thoughts
contained in the follow verses:
s'If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished for
come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents
Copy the following sentences and cor
rect the errors of syntax which they con
tain:
OF all other simpIetons he was the
greatest.
Everybody has recollections which
they think worthy of recording
Neither James, John or Peter were
present.
Copy the three following sentences,
changing them 50 as to remove the am
biguities which they contain:
He stood at the window in Paris, where
the crowd was assembled and saw the
conhagation.
Walter told his brother William that
his face was tied up because he met with
an accident.
Please send to me at Washington the
Daily Sun, of Baltimore, where I shall
remain next winter.
In geography the questions were given
out:
What is republican form Of govern
ment2
When did the present constitution Of
the United States 60 into cffect7
Which three States extend farthest
north, and which three faTthest south2
Describe the course Of the following
rivers, giving the source, direction, and
mouth Of each Hudson, Delaware, Po-
tomac, Missouri, Arkansas2
What States are bounded in part by
the Missouri rivera
In what wars did the following bat
ties occur: Bunker Hill, Lundy's Lane
Eutaw Springs, Gettysburg, Palo Alto
Lake Erie, Heights Of Abraham, Sara
toga, Stone River2
Name five principal American generals
and five British generals Of the Revolu-
tionary ware
Give the date and circumstances Of
the Louisiana purchase.
Describe the executive branch of the
United States governments and name
the several departments belonging to it.
Describe the Senate of the United
States, giving its numbers and functions
peculiar to it, not belonging to the
Hqrae Of Representatives?
In the modern languages candidates
were required to make translaticns il
French, German, Italian and Spanish
In chemistry and chemical physics tht
following questions were asked:
What is the relation Of volume 0
gases to pressure9
What is Dalton's atomic theoryl
State what you know Of the combin
ing volume Of gases.
Describe spectrum analysis.
Discuss carbon and its compounds.
Describe the structure Of fame, anj
describe the blow pipe and its mode .
use.
In the Signal Service examination, un
der the head Of Theory Of Instruments,
the following questions were asked
State the sources Of errors in thermom
eters and in the various methods o
determining the temperature Of the air.
Explain method Of celebration ant
the calculation Of the celebration error o
thermometers.
Explain the method of determining
the tension Of any air that may be pres
ent III the vacuum chambersof q mercur
iaI barometer.
Explain the theory Of the optical prin
ciples involved in the ordinary astronom
ical sextant.
Explain the method Of determining
tho dip of the magnetic needle BY tn
use Of the dip circle.
Considerable space has been given u
to this subject for the reason that q
many letters have been received Of lat
from young men making various inqui
Fiea regarding the civil service rules