The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-12-10

At the examination last week ther
were 4 applicants, 8 of whom receives
certificates. as follows:
David R. Williams, 1 year.
Julia s. Boutwell,, years.
Francis M. Jacobs, years.
Arithmetic questions the same as las
month.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
Liquable, catafalque, illegible, fossilist
erasible, convincible, gratuitously, appur
tenant, apocryphal, physicist, supplement
satellite, intuition, brougham, reticence
hemorrhage, dissension, annalize, con
scientious, pseudonym.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. From what is the term Geography
derived?
2. What is the earth's orbit? Its esti
mated length?
8. What is the equator ? Through
what countries does the equator pass?
4. Why is it colder at the Antarctic
Circle than at the Arctic?
5. Why are the winters more mild al
Puget Sound than in the region of Lake
Superior?
6. Describe Quito. What large city in
the United States is in nearly the same
longitude as Quito?
Z. Why are the tides at Fundy Bay SC
much greater than at other ports?
s. What are the chief productions Of
the Canadian provinces?
9. What are the Instructions to nayiga
tion from the Gulf of st. Lawrence to
Lake Superior? How are these obstruc
tions avoided?
10. Draw township map of jackson
County.
1. What records show that America
was discovered previous to the discovery
of Columbus?
2. What proofs show that America
was inhabited by race of men previous
the Indians?
3. What land did Columbus first dis
cover? How many and what vessels
composed his fleet?
4. What nations explored the future
United States? What territory did each
claim?
5. What name did the Dutch give their
colony on Manhattan Island? How was
this island obtained?
6. Who founded Philadelphia? From
whom did he purchase the land?
Z. What generals were killed at the
capture of Quebec? What were their
dying words?
s. How was slavery abolished in the
United States?
9. What is the Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitution? The Fifteenth?
10. Name the present Governor and
Lieutenant Governor of the Buckeye
State. The President and Vice President
of the United States.
GRAMMAR.
1. What is language? What are the
elements of spoken language? Of writ
ten language.
2. When is that used instead of aoho or
aOhichs
8. (9 don't know but what shall 60
(b) A man makes better soldier than a
woman. (c) One can not imagine what a
monotonous being one becomes if one
constantly remains turning ones self in
the circle of ones favorite notions
@ He first spoke for, and then voted
against, the measure.
4. What parts of speech can have mod
iiers?
5. Parse: (9 "When Frog took posses
sion of any thing, it was always said to be
for as, and why may not John Bull be
as, as well as Mic. Frog was us9'
(b "The Son of man hath not a0here tc
lag his head" (c) "Slow rises a0orth by
poverty depressed"
6. Define each, every, either, neither
this, and that.
7. What is the standard of grammatical
accuracy in the use of language?
8, 10.
"I'n prove the word that have made my theme,
Is that that may be doubled without blame:
And that that that thus trebed may use,
And that that that that critics may abuse
May be correct. Further the Dons to bother.
Five that's may closely follow one another!
For be 1t known that we may safely write
Or say, that that that that that wrote right
Nay, een that that that that that that followed,
Through six repeats the grammar's rule has followed
And that that that Chat that that that began)
Repeated seven times is right! Deny it who can"
Parse the that's in the above.