Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-10-20

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Give answer in the form of an integral
compound denominate number.
4. Bought sugar at 10 cents per pound.
After waste of 10 per cent, how shall
l sell it to gain 10 per cent?
| ). Define ratio. Illustrate.
6. What is an equilateral triangle?
How may its area be found?
z. A has $500; 20 per cent of BIS is
90 per cent less than 20 per cent of AS;
what is 20 per cent of both?
GEOGRAPHY.
(Omit tlco.)
l. Name leading industry of each
of the following places: Key West,
Rochester, Syracuse, Cracow and Dublin.
2. Trace the parallel of 40 degrees
north latitude around the globe by nam
ing cities hear it.
3. Name four rivers of the German
Empire, and eight cities. What one has
cholera lately ravaged?
4. Bound Vermont and name its chief
products.
5. Name at least one place, in which
each of the following is found or pro-
duced: Sponges, chamois, oysters, tar,
and opium.
6. What are the three functions of
government? Name a country in which
these are all vested in one person or
body.
z. What are winds? In what several
ways useful? Where does the simeon
prevail?
u. S. HISTORY.
JAMES DUNCAN.
(Onit tiCO.)
l. What is Columbus Day? What
arrangements have been made by the
U. S. Government for celebrating it?
How is it that the schools take such
prominent part in it?
2. Give Columbus's ideas of the shape
and size of the earth.
8. Who discovered the North Ameri
can continent? When? Where?
4. How were the following hindrance
to the early settlers? Timber, stones,
streams, swamps.
5. How an advantage?
6. What gave an impetus to settling
the South? The Pacific Coast?
z. Name the nucleuses around which
settlements were made along the Allan
tic Coast. Which ones have been most
inf1uentialP Why?
ORTHOGRAPHY.
l. Define natural language, speech,
subvocal, glottis, pharynx, vocal chords.
2. Represent the sounds.
8. Give the diacritical marks.
4. Give the uses of the macron.
5. Define; simple. compound, primi-
tive, and derivative word; prefix. suffix.
and affix; photographic and phonetic
spelling.
6. Give the uses of the hyphen ana
give three rules governing its use in
compound words.
z. Give the meanings of these abbre
viations:' D. c., Deut., D. P, a. R., @.
E. D., Do.
THEORY AND PRACTICE
T. P. HARRIS.
Omit tlUO.
l. State three objects to be attained
by recitation.
2. Explain the inductiVe and deduc-
tive methods of teaching.
3. What are the advantages of written
exercises in spelling?
4. What are your methods of teaching
grammar?
5. How do you secure good lessons?
6. What rules do you observe in the
government of your school?
z. Give an outline of language lesson
suitable for pupils of the third reader
grade.
PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE AND
NARCOTICS.
(Omit tloO of the first fre.)
l. Name, locate, and describe the vital
organs.
2. Describe the two kinds of nerve
matter. How are they arranged in the
brain and spinal cord?
8. Name five poisons with their proper
antidotes.
4. Describe the structure and compo-
sition of bones, and name the bones of
| the head.
5. Name and describe three tissues.
6. Write of the hygiene of the nervous
system.
z. Define the term narcotics. How
does the habitual use of narcotics affect
the brain?
8. What is alcohol, how produced, and
what faculties of the mind are weakened
by it?