The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-08-18
SCHOOL EXAMINERS QUESTIONS.
Result OF the Meeting On Saturday
August 1leh.

August 1l(h. vi
/. What Is the cost of 40 boards IL
feet long, 15 inches wide, ut 1915 per
hundred feet :?
2. A dishonest dealer agreed to sell
his liquids by beer measure, but used
wine measure instead. How much does
customer lose who invests $1l.55p
3. In opening case of goods that
cost me .$l.20 yard, l find them
slightly damaged; how shall mark
them that l may abate % per cent. and
lose only per cent?
4. When the new AVS are selling ut
1O5, what must invest in them to se-
cure an income of $983.25 in currency,
gold at lO9l, brokerage "A per cent.
B. Give the prefixes used in the
Metric System, the meaning OF each,
and the value of the different units of
the system in terms of the meter.
Q. Browns capital was in trade O
months, Blacks months, and Whites
10 months. Browns gain was $3.50,
Blacks 1900, Whites $500, and the
whole capital $ls,sSO. How much did
each own?
Z. Write duo-decimal and deci-
NAL fraction. Write 13 billion 13 mil
lion and l3 thousand hundredths.
8. If cannon ball, 9 inches in d.
ameter, is melted and cast in conical
mould . inches in diameter at the base,
what is the length of conep
8. What time after o'clock are the
hour and second hands together, II fthey
move upon the same center.
10. The base of an lsosceles triangle
is 6-5 as long as each of the two equal
sides and its area is 0O711 81. TT. Re.
quired the base.
GRAMMAR.
1. Name all the classes of abridged
| propositions and give examples.
2. When do you drop the subject of
the subordinate clause in abridging?
Give rule.
3. When do you retain the connec-
tive? Give rule and example, and
parse the retained connective in the
abridgment.
4. What is False Syntax!
5. Correct the folio wing and give
reasons for the change: Every pupil
should honor their father and mother.
This is the boy whom l think should
be rewarded. The jury have disagreed
in its verdict.
6. Abridge the subordinate clauses
in the following: The person that you
saw went to the place where he form
erly lived.
I. Parse the italicized words: Where
the snow falls, there is freedom. Mine
Is as good as yours, but his is not so good
as either. Whatever money was in the
purse is mine.
8. Diagram:
If to do were as easy as to know
what were good to do, chapels had been
churches and poor mems cottages
princes palaces.
oROoRAPHY.
]. What are continental axes?
2. What facts have been discovered
in regard to the great storms of the U.
8: Locate and describe the "Great
Valley.'
4. Enumerate some of the gradual
changes of level which are now occur
ring in the crust of the earth. By
what are they caused
8. Where are the centers of volcanic
activity found?
q. Name the N. Central States east
of the Mississippi, and give the area.
population and boundaries of the small
est.
2. Name the divisions of Australia
and give capitals.
8. Define mirage. aurora borealis,
apOgee. perigee and mock sun.
8. Name tho provinces of Canada,
giving capitals.
10. What and where are Cuzco, Yo-
kohama, Chaleur, Lacrosse, Gambia
and West Point?
HISTORY.
l. What States were formed from
the Northwest Territory?
2. When were the stars and stripes
adopted as the flag of our nation? The
difference between it and the COnfed-
crate flag?
3. Who named New England?
Sketch briefly his life.
4. For what was the colony of New
Amsterdam founded? Massachusetts?
5. What American citizen was re-
Gently imprisoned by Mexico and for
what cause?
6. Who said 81 intend to fight it out
on this line II it takes all summer"
and under what circumstancesY
7. TO the teachings of what man
more than any other, may the Rebel
lion be attributed?
8. Describe the two principal kinds
OF government that the colonies were
underY
9. Under whose administration was
the largest number of States admitted?
10: What three Presidents died on
the Fourth of July?
THEORY AND PRACTlCk.
!. What is the Albaugh lawY I'm
conscious tuition?
2. Do you intend becoming u mem.
Der OF your Township Reading Circle ?
.. What is the "desideratum" of our
schools?
4. What part of the education of the
pupil should be left to "unconsciOns
tuitiOn?"
8. Write twelve lines on the subject
of teaching spelling.
D. What Is the chief benefit derived
from County Institutes. \
ORTHoGRAPHY.
!. Define orthography and orthoepy ?
2. What is u letter, a syllable and
wordy
3. Illustrate the use Of the caret.
4. What is the ultimate, penult and
antt-penuit OF residual?
o. Name the vowels and the num-
Der OF sounds of each.
Professor Patterson ~ Sou E.on o;aoo