Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-06-29

| Der.
5. Sold 81 of lot of flax for wha
8-l4 of it cost. Did l gain or lose
What per cent?
| 6. A and B rent pasture for $50.
pastures 10 cows, and B 60 sheep. Wha
shall each pay, providing the pasturin,
of 2 cows is equivalent to that of /
sheep?
z. What will it Cost to fence rec
tangular piece of land containing 6 acre
at $500 per rod, providing the length i
twice the width?
NARCOTICS.
(Onit tiUo)
JAMES DUNCAN.
l. From what is alcohol made? How
2. How is alcohol made from grapes
Peaches? Potatoes?
8. Why is it that the more civilized {
nation becomes the greater becomes tn,
amount and variety of its alcohol,
beverages?
4. Why does alcohol in small doses ait
feeble digestion, and in large doses, Ions
continued, ruin the digestive function?
5. Describe the successive effects OF
opium.
6. What is tobacco? What effect doe.
il often produce on young people?
z. What is tobacco amblyopia?
ORTHOGRAPHY.
(Omi tipO)
l. Excel. scallop, specie, lapel, cleat
gnarled, massage, catkin. illustrate
the use of each word.
2. Give ten rules for the use of capi.
tai letters.
3. Discriminate in the use of these
synonyms: Idle, indolent and lazy, dull
comical, laughable, ludicrous, and face.
tiOus.
4. Define root, prefix, suffix, and aflix.
5. Form thirty words on the root act
6. Make and name the marks used in
Webster's Dictionary to indicate the
sounds of letters.
z. How do you account for silent let
ters in our language?
HISTORY.
tOmit tir0)
1. Name the principal colonies form
ed by the English in the settlement of
America. Tell when, by whom, and for
what purpose each was formed.
2. What battle was fought in United
States territory by two nations at peacef
Describe it.
8. What institution grew up in this
country to become its curse? Name
some of the leading advocates of this
curse. What reasons did they give for
its existence?
4. Name some of its great opponents.
Give their reasons for its destruction or
restriction.
5. What part of the United States is
now most densely settled? Why? Name
two or three States which are not so
wealthy and powerful as formerly?
Why?
6. What is the Constitution When
was it adopted? Why? Give an out
line of its contents.
T. Name four great railways which
cross this country. Give the termini of
each. What influence have they on
commerce? How?
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
Omit tlrO.
T. P. HARRIS.
/. What is the distinction between
sensation and perception?
2. What is the topical method of recit-
ing? What are the advantages of this
method?
8. Which first, synthesis or analysis?
Why?
4. What are the causes of disorder in
school?
5. Give the order in which you teach
the letters, reading, writing and spelling.
Give reasons for same.
5k6 Should the spelling book be banish-
ed from our schools? Why?
z. What general question would you
ask during the recitation of an advanced
reading classG
GRAMMAR.
(Omu tlp0)
l. Give classification of the noun.
2. What is synthesis, analysis, parsing
and ellipeis? Illustrate each.
8. Write ten sentences, showing the
wrong use of adjectives for adverbs.
4 Construct sentences illustrating
nine different ways in which the infini-
tive may be used
5. Make possessive modifiers of the
following words. and join them to nouns
in sentences: Woman, women, mouse,
mice, hero, heroes, fairy, fairies, his, its.
6. Compose sentences illustrating the
different ways of contracting abverb
clauses.
Z. Construct sentences showing five
different uses of the noun clauses.
WRITING will be graded from papers
on Grammar.
PHYSIOLOGY.
(Omit tlco.)
l. Define the following: Aneurism,
chilblain, axilla, casein, foramen. pons,
Will, ileum.
2 Explain how movement is produced
in the elbow joint.
g. OF what is all food taken into the
system composed? What takes place
while the food is in the mouth? While
in the stomach? In the small intestine?
What becomes of the chyle?
4. Name the valves of the heart. De-
scribe each.
5. What double function is performed
by the larynx? How is the voice pro-
duced?
6. Upon what does the distinctness of
vision depend? How can the dimness
be remediedY
z. What agents have the most in
fluence on the human bOdyY