The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-03-14

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illustrate by examples the difference
between ellipsis and abridgment.
What are the elements of sentence ?
Write sentence using all the elements.
What are the properties of the noun
Form sentences showing the different
Correct, If necessary, and parse itali-
cized words: Every teacher should instruct
their pupils to speak proper.
Give synopsis of the verb know in the
indicative mode, active voice, and in
potential mode, passive voice.
(a) Write q sentence containing
noun in the nominative case independ-
ent.
(b) Write q sentence containinga q noun
in the nominative absolute.
(c) Write sentence containing noun
in the predicate nominative.
(d) Parse each noun 80 written.
When do proper nouns become COM
mon nouns and vice versa?
Diagram:
No man ID born into the world whose work
Is not born with him there 10 always work,
And tools TO work withal for those who will.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
What are some of the principal ends
which teacher should strive to attain
in the school room?
What faculties of the mind are most
active in education?
Explain the word method Of learning
to read.
What is Language Lesson ?"
What method should be employed to
cultivate the memory of pupils?
What method should be employed to
teach children how to studyf
What use of the book, II any, should
the teacher make while the class is
reciting?
Give your views about "favorites in
school,"
Should pupils be whipped for disobe-
dience?
Why do you teach?
HISTORY.
Define history, Ancient, Modern, Sa-
cred, Profane, Ecclesiastical and Political.
What offices constitute the Presidents
Cabinetf What was the last one added
and when?
Give the process of electing President
and Vice. President OF the United States.
When was this plan adopted? Why?
Give the date of the admission of Ohio
into the Union, and OF the last five
States.
How may bill become a law without
the Presidents signature
What was the nature of Jackson's
Specie Gin cular, and what resulted from
it
What was the Emancipation Procla-
nation ? When issued By whom ?
When did it take effect? Why?
What is meant by Prehistoric Ameri-
ca? When does the true history Of this
country begin? Why?
When and where was the first perma.
nent French settlement made? English ?
Dutch? Spanish?
In what does treason consist What
proof is required? Who fixes the pun
ishment? What limit is assigned ?
GEOGRAPHY.
A vessel was wrecked in latitude 45'
north and longitude 620 west. What
| was the nearest land?
Name the territories of the United
States. Name and locate their capitals,
their chief cities, and chief rivers.
If you were standing on the equator
to-day in what direction would your
shadow fall? In what direction would
1t fall if you were standing on the north
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Name the bodies OF water over which
vessel would pass in following the coast
of Europe.
Where is Ulster? What is the relig,
ion there !?
Give the width of the zones and tell
how they came to be 80 divided.
Name, in order of their lengths, the
longest five rivers on the globe, begin
ming with longest. Which OF them
empty through deltas? Which through
Explain fully the cause OF trade winds.
What gives them their direction?
Which is the colder, Labrador or
England? Why?
What is our latitude and longitude
What is the latitude of place 1859
north of the south pole?
ARITHMETIC.
If wheat be at 81, rye at so cents, and
corn at 373 cents per bushel; how many
bushels of each may be purchased for
How many yards of carpeting which
is one yard wide, will be required to
cover the floor OF a room measuring 10
feet inches long, and 10 feet inches
~ ~ ub. IN the UulCoQ OtaLe6 Do equal
to 10 lbs. at Amsterdam, and 100 lbs. at
Amsterdam be equal to 120ibs. at Paris |;
how many pounds at Paris are equal to
15O lbs. in the United States
Three pipes Of equal size will fill q
cistern with water in Is hours 40 minutes.
In how many hours would five such
pipes fill cistern whose capacity is q
timeil that Of the first one?
A farmer sold two horses, A and B,
for $50, receiving As a. much for A as
for B on A he gained 33S per cent, and
on B he lost II 10 per cent. how much
did he gain
A general in attempting to mass his
brigade, consisting OF 300 privates, into
q square, found he had 70 soldiers more
than enough to complete the square |;
required the number Of soldiers In the
side OF the square f
There il q tree 100 feet In height,
standing by the bank Of river 100 1eet
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