The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-12


principal of the school to whom it is handed is
requested to write out the answers without
consultation with any other person or without
reference TO books.
RETURN TO REPORTER.
l. How many territorial governors did Kan
sas have and who was the first?
2. Who was the author of Don QuixOte?
3. What is the name of the first island
Columbus landed upon?
4. From what circumstance did the word
| tariff originate?
8. How many officers in President Harri-
sons cabinet and what are their names and
departments?
6. Who is the present acknowledgement
of Kansas?
Z. Point out the error in the sentence: 1.-The
day of execution approaches; tomorrow is
Thursday, and Friday he will be no more.''
Each reporter was armed with one of
these cards for every principal, for Super
intendent Stevenson, the members of the
city board of examiners, the faculty of the
Lewis Academy and all that local array of
pedgogic austerity that with heartless
regularity, puts the youngsters of the city
through rigid examination at the end of
every mouth.
The effect on the average school master
when this card was showed under his nose
was startling. They read the explanation;
tackled the first question with bravado
|
failed; grappled the second with color ris-
ing. A great many knew this and it re-
vived them for the moment; then the third
was in the school line and, after they had
answered il, they came down on the origin
of the word tariff" with renewed cour-
age and as confident as man who has
reached the ground after his first para
chute jump But they fell down on the
| tariff aud with several initiating gulps and
| brow-knittings,t took hold of the presidents
cabinet question. Of course they knew
this. Certainly. Blaine was secretary of
state. Everybody got that faS But, hellol
who is secretary OF the treasury? and is
the chief Justice member of the cabinets
and is Rusk postmaster general or secre-
tary of the interior. Oh! what a mess!
Everybody started out confidently on the
naming of the cabinet, but in two minutes
they We're rubbing out and inserting and
scratching and finally leaving the question
in ali incomplete and badly mangled and
mutilated condition.
There was the sixth question. It is a
simple one. Everybody ought to know
who our present lieutenant governor is.
But how many did? They would say: Il
L
did KNOW" and a half-dozen other express
sions of hesitation. There was a general
identification on the question of grammar
aud the person on the rack answered this
last question with a sigh of relief, but
some of them went away off into the
realms of misty rules aud unforgotten
syntax and tried to prove lot of impos-
sible things that nobody understood and
they did not understand very clearly them
selves.
The following are the answers of the
questions:
i. Six territorial governors. Andrew
Reeder, Wilson Shannon, John w. Geary,
r. j. Walker, J. w. Denver, Samuel Me-
Diary. Andrew H. Reeder was the first
territorial governor
2. Miguel Cervautes.
8. Disputed. San Salvador, Cats Is
land, Watlings or the Spanish Guanahano,
all accepted as correct.
4. The word tariff is derived from
Tarifa, a town in Spain, at the entrance of
the Straits of Gibralta, where duties were
formerly exacted or the passing merchant
marine.
5 There are eight officers in the cabinet.
of treasury, Tracy, secretary of the navy,
WaDnamaker, postmaster-general.M Miller,
encouragement, Noble, secretary of the
interior, Rusk, secretary of agriculture,
war portfolio vacant.
6. Andrew jackson Felt.
Z. The error in tomorrow is Thursday" |
which should be tomorrow will be Thurs
day"
The teachers were not interviewed and |
it is undoubtedly and undeuisbly their |
privilege to laugh at the blunders of their
superiors which were not few.
THE ERIsT MAN
The board of city examiners, that dread |
ful triumveriate which fortunes with pitt
less satisfaction the applicants for places
in the city schools were the first confront
ed with the card that was the talk o. the
town before night George f. Campbell |
WAS the first of these. He studied the
card and the further down the list he got
the broder the smile on his face became
Look here. he said, what's this anyway
"You are TO answer those questions. Mr..
But great glory! am no school teach
er. don't need any examination"
But you are a city examiner, aren't
your
II believe am; bnt. Jehosaphat, can't
answer those"
You won't try it."
mo, sir.''
But Mr. Campbell did Just then he
read the sentence with the error in it and
discovered the mistake, and he correct
ed it.
Now, then" said the reporter, 'Mr.
Campbell, you must answer all you can,
because you don't want TO go before the
as only being able TO answer
one question.
This settled Campbell. and hs went 10
work He bravely guessed at the number
If territorial governors OF Kansas and put
ioWD three-
-'Do you know the names Of any Of the
asked the reporter.
Mr.. Campbell smiled weak smile and
d sde answer No" He got the author of
Don Qaixote," named the cabinet officers .
md corrected the sentence. AS the re-
porter faded in the distance Campbell fol- ,
owed him up and kicked II
1T isn't fair TO ask me those questions.