The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-04-13
BOARD OF SCHOOL EXAMINERS.
list Of Questions Propoundcd on Sat.
urday, April 8.
NARCOTICS.

wHibhf III DCCi LII
Describe accurately the effect Of alco.
hol upon the brain.
How is the starch of vegetables and
grains converted into alcohol?
What are the conditions necessary to
alcoholic fermentation ?
How is opium made7 How is it used
What proof have We that alcohol will
prevent oxidation? What proof that it
is eliminated from the body unchanged?
GEOGRAPHY.
Explain the cause of twilight. Where
is its duzation shortest Where longest
How wide is the twilight belt?
The waters of what lake in New York
find their way into the Gulf OF Mexico
By means of what rivers2
What waters does the Neva river con.
meet !? Strait of Babel Mandeb2 Strait of
Bosporus?
Name the chains that comprise the
West Indies. Locate the Polynesian
chain.
Name the "Six Great Powers" and
give the capital of each.
Why do the Gulf Stream and Kuro
Siwo or Black Stream flow to the north.
east =?
How many counties in Ohio Name
the county seat of each county bound
ing Highland. Name the townships of
Highland.
Describe and locate three hot winds
and three cold winds.
What and where are; Ascension, AS
suncion, Columbia, Colombia, Malacca,
Macassar
Define fauna and hora What differ
ence can you note between the Arctic
land and marine fauna? Between the
Tropical land and marine fauna?
PSYCHOLOGY.
What would be the logical course if
you intended to write comprehensive
treatise on the subject of Psychology,
and why?
Define sensation. Distinguish it from
what it suggests.
What is the real difference between
physical and mental facts?
Do a child's sensations seem to be
qualities of objects What is the prob
lem of PERCEPTION
Explain ideas in the phrase association
of ideas. What kind of associations do
children first form?
State the three questions which
theory of PERCEPTION has to answer.
What is the meaning of the terms,
sensationalist, empiricist, transcendent.
alist?
What is the difference between a pre-.
cept and an image3
What classes of objects are children
most interested in?
Explain how the mind becomes con.
cious of difiniti sensations.
GRAMMAR.
Write the synopsis of the verb drive in
| the indicative and potential modes.
What is meant by Conjugation? The
Strong Conjugation !? The Weak Con
| jugation ?
Give an example OF strong verb. A
weak verb. From what language are
all strong verbs derived?
What is derivative word ? A prim.
tive word Give an example Of each.
What is Apheresis, Prosthesis, Syn
cope, Trnesis, Apocope, Saragoge, Syner.
esis, Dieresis, Hyperbaton, Zengma?
What do you teach in reference to the
subjunctive mode? Why?
Write one sentence containing the four
classes OF common nouns.
Diagram and pars italicized words !:
"The poets eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth
to heaven
Turns them to shape and gives to airy nothing
A local habitati5n and name."
ARITAMETIC.
If A has 99s% less money than B, then
BIS money is how many %more than AS
Took risk at 3.5 % re.insured hall
OF it at the same rate, and of it at 2%
my share of the premium was $58. IL
how large was the risk
If ID. of tea are worth 7 ID. of coffee
and IA Id. of coffee are worth 48 Id. oi
sugar, and 18 ID. of sugar are worth 27
ID. of soap how many pounds of soap
are 6 pounds of tea worth?
What is the diameter of cylindrical
reservoir containing 8 times as much
water as one 25 feet in diameter, the
height being the same?
A LIQUOR dealer wishes to fill hogs.
head with water and with two kinds of
brandy at $3.50 and So per gallon, so
that the mixture may be worth 1925 a
gallon; in what proportions must he
mix them ?
A person owning $4,000 in govern
ment funds, desires to purchase stock in
the Citizens National Bank. The funds
are at discount of 3!%, while the bank
stock is at premium of lOi%; what
amount of stocks at par value can he
| purchase, dIlOWluS Gut DTOher iRes
for the purchase to be 10?
A mechanic hired journeyman for
months at $40 per month, to be paid
monthly; at the end OF the time he had
paid nothing; he then settled, allowed
interest at 7%, and gave his note on in
terest, due in one year months and II
days; what will he pay when his note
falls due?
Three persons, @, D, and E, form 6
partnership; C's stock is in trade thret
months, and he claims liz of the gain
DIS stock is in trade nine months; anC
f put in 1915 for four months, ant
claims of the profits; how much die
q and d put in?
The solar year contains 365 da. 8 hr
48 min. 48 Sec Find what fractiona
part of day the excess of the solar yea
is above the common year, when the
operation is carried to the fifth approx
mating fraction.
PHYSIOLOGY.
Define iris. pupil, retina, blind spot