Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-13
TEACHERS QUESTIONS.
Examination held in Bridgeport, O., on
Saturday, March Sth:

HISTORY.
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sc. MURPHY.
l. Have you read Washington's Fare
well Address? If so, give some points
contained therein.
2. Give an account of the invasion OF
Burgoyne, including time, place, object
and result.
3. Name two noted retreats of the Rev
olution, and show the difficulties of each
4. What We're the great obstacles to the
union of the Colonies at the close of the
Revolution?
>. Name fifteen Union and fifteen Con
federate Generals of the civil war.
6. Where were the following killed
Ross, Montgomery, DieSkau, David
Crockett, and Albert Sidney Johnson?
Z. Who are Reed and ingalls,: What
has lately called special attention to each
ORTHOGRAPHY.
Omit tlCO.
l. Define orthOgraphy, orthoepy, sylla
BILE, root, and letter.
2. Add ing to come, control, SINCE, and
dye, and give the rule by which you spell
them.
3. Show by example in words the vari-
Gus forms of ad, and give reason for the
change.
4. Classify the elementary sounds.
). Make use of alb, auto, peri, ic, ish, and
let in words and give their signiticatiOn.
6. Give the etymology of education.
Z. Define phonetic, phonic and ortho-
graphic spelling.
WRITING.
l. Name and describe the several move
ments.
2. When do you teach print? When
script? Why?
3. Analyze a, B, |, r, II, and m.
4. Give rules for spacing and shading.
3. death safe enthroned upon his brow,
Times plOw had furrOwed deep his face.
Yet seemed he OF a noble race.
GEOGRAPHY.
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TIP. HARRIS.
1. If you were standing at Quito at
noon to-day, which way would your
shadow fall? Why?
2. Trace water route from Odessa to
Alexandria.
3. Begin with Maine and name in order
the States bordering upon the Atlantic
and Gulf of Mexico, naming and locating
the capital of each.
l. Locate the following islands: Trini-
dad, Jamaica, Orkney, Man, AajOrca, FL
ba, Cyprus, Falkland, Malta, Crete.
). Name the last four States admitted
into the Union, and give their capitals.
6. What three important rivers rise III
the Alps, and into what waters does each
empty?
Z. Bound Belmont county, locate its
five largest towns, and give its chief oc-
cupatlons and productions.
ARITHMETIC.
(Omit tUo.)
l. A wagon-bed is 102s ft. long, 315 ft
wide; how deep must it be to hold 35.1
bushels wheat?
2.What would it.cost to enclose square
lot containing 10 acres with fence cost
ing at the rate of 81 80 per rod?
3. A commission merchant sold 90 bar
rels of apples for me at SO per barrel; he
paid Sc 25 freight, and this with his com
mission amounted to $1S 10; what was
the rate per cent. of his commission?
4. Sold two horses for 1926 each; on one
/ gained 10 per cent, and on the other
lost 10 per cent. What per cent. would !
have lost had l sold both horses for $500:
3. Berlin is in longitude 130 90 80" east
and Boston is in longitude 7r' 4 g. west;
when it is 4 A. NJ at Berlin what time is
it at Boston?
6. Write a negotiable note dated May
16, 1886, for $3.50, bearing interest at 8
per cent, and compute the amount due
March s, 1890, $165 having been paid Oct
10, 1889. 40 per cent. for note, 10 per
cent. for answer.)
Z. | have an per cent. note for $780,
dated August 19, 1888, and due March s.
1891. June 15, 1890, S. c. Murphy pro-
poses to buy it of me at discount of 6 per
cent; what must he pay me for the note
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
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JAMES DUNCAN.
1. Give the program of recitation and
study which you use in your school.
2. How do you conduct recitation in
addition of fractions?
3. Tell how you teach the geography of
Ohio.
4. Name two of the books on education
you have read this winter? Give an
outline of the contents of one of them.
5. What use do you make in your teach
ing of the animals, plants, hills, valleys
streams, etc, of the neighborhood?
6. What facts lead you to think you
have succeeded in your school work this
term?
Z. Make out list of ten questions suit
able for test review of the history of
the American Revolution.
GRAMMAR.
(Omit tIUo)
1. Write compound sentence having
the subjects of the members compound.
2. Give form for the analysis of SEN
tenceS.
3. What grammar book is used in your
school? Give an outline of it.
4. What part of it do you find most
difficult to teach? Why?
3. What have you done this winter to
improve your style in composition?
6. Give short history of the origin and
improvement of the English language.
Z. Give five words of Latin origin. of
Greek, of Saxon, of French.
PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE AND
NARCOTICS
(Ont any tlOo of the first 5)
l. Name three of the principal kinds of
food used in Belmont county, tell how
they are cooked, and how long it takes to
digest them.
2..Name the various muscular actions
in digestion.
3. Describe the chemical actions in di
gestion.
4. Give the composition of blood, its
color, the organs of circulation, and the
propelling force.
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