Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-08
Teachers Questions.

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Teachers Questions.
The following questions were asked at
the Teachers Examination held in
Belmont, on Saturday, Sept. I'd:
GRAMMAR.
(Omit tipo.)
| S. C. MURPHY.
l. Define case, government, agree
ment, relation, and clause.
| 2. What is complement? What are
the several kinds? Give an example of
clause used as complement.
3. What do you understand by the
nominative absolute? By the nomina-
tive independent? Illustrate each.
4. Outline sytem of language les
sons suitable for the third reader grade.
5. Write sentence having clause
for subject, and analyze it.
8. What are the notifications of the
verb?
z. He ought to do it. She came dane
ing in. L feel hungry. He became
scholar. He made it straight. Dispose
of italics.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
l. What is the relative Importance of
language work and grammar in our
schools?
2. How do you teach spelling? Why
as you do?
3. What is the Importance of daily
program?.
4. What subjects do you give special
attention to in your teaching? Why?
5. What are the special advantages of
the word and object method of teaching?
PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE AND
NARCOTICS.
(Omit tipo of the first fre)
1. What is the function of the skin?
Describe its structure.
2. Define anatomical element, gland,
apparatus, secretion, and digestion.
3. What is the limit of vision? How
does the eye accommodate itself to dis
! tance?
4. Describe minutely the method of
absorption in the stomach and intes-
tines.
5. What is the nervous system? Name
the two subdivisions.
6. What is fermentation? What are
its products? Describe the process of
making whisky.
Show wherein the process of making
bread and whisky are alike. Account
for the healthfulness of the one and the
unhealthfulness of the other.
8. What is cirrhosis? Describe mi
nutely.
GEOGRAPHY.
(Omit tlCo)
JAMES DUNCAN.
1. Name the principal cities forming
the suburbs of New York, and tell how
each could be reached from the city.
2. Give the similarities and differ
ences in the climate of Africa and
South America.
3. Give the reasons of the statements
in No. 2.
4. Locate the following cities: Madras,
Osaka, Seoul, Toxic, and Warsaw.
5. Name five principal food plants,
and tell how each is cultivated.
6. Draw map of Belmont county,
with its townships.
z. What are the sources of the great
wealth of the United States?
ARITHMETIC.
l. A lot of one acre is five times as
long as wide. 1t is enclosed with a j.
wire fence, weighing II OF. to the 100
ft. of wire. How many pounds?
2. A cellar is 80 ft. by 60 ft. by A it. |
Jones contracts to excavate it for 13c a |
yard. He sells the dirt for 10c cart |
load, II loads to the yard. How much |
does he get for the job?
3. How must goods which cost 60c a !
yard be marked, that the merchant may
discount 20 per cent from the marked |
price and still make 20 per cent?
4. A note of $500 was given Jan. l, at |
6 per cent interest, on which a payment
of 1925 was made July 3. Oct. Is the
note was bought at 3 per cent discount
on its value at that time. How much |
was paid for it?
5. Bought 5000 worth of books at a
discount of 335 per cent from list price,
and sold them at regular retail price on
6 months credit. What was the per
cent profit, if money be worth per cent?
6. A man has fields containing 3-5
acres, 7-10 acres, 10 IL acres, and s |
2-5 acres, respectively, which he divided
into the largest possible house lots of
equal size. Hew many lots did he make,
and what was the size of each?
z. How many barrels of water in the
basin of a fountain in the form of a
hemisphere 221 feet in diameter?
U. S. HISTORY.
(On,it t,oo.)
t. P. HARRIS.
/. Name the important events in
American history, with their correspon-
ding dates.
2. State fully the distinction between
the Articles of Confederation and the
Constitution.
3. What was Jackson's Specie Circu-
lar, and what resulted from it?
4. Give brief history of Mormonism
in this country.
5. What was the Fugitive Slave law?
The Dred Scott decision? The "Overt
Act" of the civil war?
6.When was the Southern Confederacy
formed? OF what States did it consist?
What ave-holding States refused to
secede? What Safes remained neutral?
z. What were the terms of the treaty
of 1888?
ORTHOGRAPHY.
(Omit t,pO.)
l. In what three classes are elemen-
tary sounds divided? Give number of
each class.
9 Give words containing all the vocal