The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-01-07
BOARD OF SCHOOL EXAMINERS.
List Of Questions PropOunded on Sat-
urdaY, January 2.
HISTORY.

HISTORY.
When and where was the Alabama
claim settled, and what was it?
What is citizen? An alien Natural.
ization
Over what parts of the United States
has Congress exclusive authority?
How often does Congress meet? +?
When Define "a Congress"
Quote the Preamble to Constitution.
Quote the first telegram. Who sent it !?
What were the results of the war Of
1912?
Relate the cause of the crisis of 1887.
How was this country governed prior
to the Revolution?
State when the Union was formed.
Its fundamental difference from the
Confederation.
What is the object of two legislative
houses Is the Senate or House of the
higher dignity Why?
PHYSIOLOGY.
Describe fully the anatomy and func-
tions of the cerebrum.
Where is the coloring matter of the
skin situated What ia 1t called \
How is the body kept warm? Does
exercise increase the temperature of the
body?
Define pleura, mesenterics, fovea cent.
rails, and cardiac.
What is the function of the portal
vein ? What other name has this vein
What is absorption? BY what is IL
performed?
What is pepsin Ptyalin ? Pancreatin?
Chyle?
What is the difference between voice
and speech?
NARCOTICS.
What can you say Of the effect of al.
cohol upon the lungs?
At what temperature does alcohol
boil Freeze? What importance attaches
to each fact?
How does alcohol get into the blood
What then becomes of it?
Describe the indigestion due to alco
hol.
Name the principal scientific uses of
alcohol.
What is orthepy? What is syllabica.
ton?
What general directions would you
give class concerning the analysis of
sentences?
What is periodic sentence A loose
sentence A balanced sentence?
What is a defective verb? Which
auxiliaries are detective?
Parse: This book is presented to you as
token of friendship. sang my throat
hOdrse.
What parts of speech may aohat be +?
Illustrate
What is a copulative conjunction !?
Distinctive conjunction Adversatiye
conjunction? IihlstrBte EACH. 4Ei
What is the distinction in the use of
the propositions betWiIt and betUeea
Amonq and betUeen? Illustrate.
Write synopsis of obey in the indica-
tive mode, passive voice.
Diagram:
$50 live, that when thysummOns comes to join
The innumerable caravan that moves
To the pale realms Of shade, where each shall
take
His chamber in the silent balls of death.
Thou 60 not, like the quarry slave ut night,
Scourged to his dungeon. but, sustained and
soothed t
By an unfsltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant drea "
ARITHMETIC.
Two persons, A land b, observed an
eclipse Of the moon A observed its com.
mencement at 8 hr. AZ mln. p. m; B.was
in longitude 730 20, and observed its
commencement, % minutes earlier than
A: What was AS longItude, and BIS
time of observation?
My agent at Havana purchased for me
quantity ed sngar at 6f cents pound,
for which / allow him a commission of
4-5 per cent. His commission amounts
to $42.66: How many barrels OF sugar
OF 240 pounds each did he purchase, and
how much money must ] send him to
pay for it. including his commission ?
kWhat is the difference bel ween the
true and bank discount OF 81 900, paya.
BILE in 7 months, at 6 per cent?
| How much d per cent stock, at par,
can be purchased for $500, at 81 pei
cent. premium, I per cent being paid
for BROKERAGE
| A owes B $500, payable in 6 months
at the expiration of 4 months he pays