The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-05-11
BOARD OF SCHOOL EXAMINERS.
List Of Questions Propounded on SAT.
urday, May 9Th.
ARITAMETIC.


What is arithmetic? A unit? Part.
nership? Interest ? Annual interest
Proportion2 Ratio? A common frac-
ton? A decimal fraction?
paid SIS for bushels of chestn uts,
and sold them at 10 cents per liquid
quart. What did / gain?
II you buy eggs at for 2 cents, and
sell them at 2 for cents, what per cent
do you gain?
A note of 5000 is dated January LIST,
1892. due in 8 months. Endorsements,
July Sd, 1892, $50; October Sd, 1892, $40 |;
January Sd, 1898. $50. What is the
amount due today?
Find the amount OF S0.OS, at 8 per
cent. paya Die annually, running years,
months and days.
How many square yards of paper will
| cover the walls of parlor 81 feet long,
Is feet wide and IL feet high? How
many rolls of square yards each2
A travels miles, 127 rods less per day
than B, who travels SO miles, 100 rods
rods in 10 days; how far will A travel
while B is travelling A miles, 255 rods
Name all the properties OF 496.
A drover expended 81, 800 in horses,
cows and sheep; the horses cost Sl2O,
the cows $50, and The sheep S5 each ;
there were six times as many sheep as
cows, and one third as many horses as
sheep; how many of each did he buy
Jacob served Laban IA years for his
wife (RacheD; how much time was left
when he had served 10 years 10 months,
10 weeks, 10 days, 10 hours, 10 minutes
and 10 seconds.
GRAMMAR.
"rIfa he
uses of the infnitive.
Write sentences illustrating all the
uses OF the participle.
Diagram and parse italicized words
They made him President. They made
the man jealous. They made the man
labor. Our honor is to be maintained
George is aoittout fault.
Write a compound sentence. Com
plex. Simple.
Name and define the different modes
Name and define the three absolute
lenses. Three relative.
Name the figures of speech.
Decline himself; me "John."
Write a synopsis of the verb ''See."
Classify adverbs, propositions, con
functions.
Diagram and give constructions q
italicized words:
II thank you that you have taught me tn
stern truth
None other could have told and believed
That vain had been my love and 1 deceived,
And aoasted all the purpose OF my youth"
GEOGRAPHY.
, Locate the following: Adriondac
t Mountains; White Mountains; Virgi
Islands; St. Andrew Islands; Cape Sal
Antonio; Ozark Mountains.
: Name the principal rivers emptyin
8 into the Ohio from the north. Frol
the south.
What may be said of the Casiqiuar
8 River?
' Name the divisions of South Amerit
bordering on the Pacific Ocean.
What are the principal seaports
s France? What Strait between Sici
}. and France?
Name the principal plateaus of Asi
In how many zones is Africa? Whit
le countries are crossed by the equator
Name the principal rivers of Hindo
stan and tell where they empty.
- HISTORY.
Define history, ancient history, mo
ern history. When did the history
RS the U. S. begin?
IN Name three Spanish explorers and t.
az what they did.
" What were the Inter. colonial War
What were the chief causes of the
n. wars?
"a When, where and by whom "
! PENNSYLVANIA first settled? Massach,
~ setts? New Jersey? Georgia? ~
mt What religious disputes occurred d.
| A. 81
.st count of the trouble between the Pu
tans and the Quakers.
Who was Minister Egan? Citiz
sts Genet? Pulaski? La Fayette?
" When did Washington become
~ Capitol of the o. S.? When and
ett whom was Washington City par
ay burned?
What had the character of George
to do with causing the Revolutio
us How did the invention of the Cotton,
re. help to cause the Rebellion?
mo When did the Worlds Fair ope
o' When will it close? Name it's adv
. tages and disadvantages to the countl
N. What influence do railroads have uI
- the progress and civilization of count
ull PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
es, What is Physical Geography? W
ith should it be studied in the coun
ltb schools?
w What are Coral Islands? What
er- the several kinds?
ex- What are longitudinal valleys? W
are moraines? What are the tn
kinds?
Name the eliminating point of e'
of the continents? Which are ole
: the Andes or the Rocky Mountains :?
In What is the solar system? Name
Ids principal planets in the order of tt
distance from the sun.
What is a mathematical zone?
WO nhysical zoua9 Q Tn which zona of a