Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
Teachers Questions.
The following questions were asked at
the Teachers Examination held in
Somerton, Saturday, Marck 10:
HISTORY.

HISTORY
S. C. MURPHY.
(Omit tro)
/. Give an account of the plans of the
war in which Braddock was engaged
and the part performed by him.
2. What was the Ordinance of 17S7?"
Who was its author? Give two impor-
tant provisions.
8. Give biographical sketch of some
length of one of the following: Hamil-
ton, Madison, Webster, Lincoln. Frank
| lin, Blaine. Name some eminent Ameri-
can biographers.
4. Give an account of the massacres
of Cherry Valley and Wyoming. What
General was sent to avenge the outrage?
How did he succeed?
5. What is known in history as the
Thirty Years War? When and where
waged? Where were the sympathies of
the people of England? How was the
same principle worked out in Englands
What was its effect on American
6. What is the Wilson Bill? Why so
calleds What is it designed to repeal?
Give some of its provisions.
| z. What are the exclusive powers OF
the Senate? What of the House?
NARCOTICS.
| COntt tlgO.)
1. What is alcohol? What are its prop
critics?
2. What is chloral? What are its prop
critics and effects? Why preferable to
other drugs often used for the same pur-
pose?
8. Describe minutely delirium tre-
mems.
4. Why is alcohol SO generally used as
a beverage?
| 5. What is the effect of alcohol on the
blood? On the blood vessels?
| 6. What is the effect of tobacco on the
heart?
| z. Account scientifically for the in
crease of fat accompanying the use OF
alcohol.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
(Omit tlco.)
1. Define and give the etymology OF
orthography.
2. What is a dipththong! What class
es have we? Illustrate.
3. What is the importance of good
spelling? How should spelling be taught!
Why?
f. Account for the irregularity OF
English photography.
5. Fully parse and analyze type
writer"
6. Put ing to each of the following
words and give the rule: control and
toll, also put nleat to aDridge, and give
the rule.
z. Define letter, syllable, root, vowel
mute and philolgogy.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
(Omit tlpo.)
JAMES DUNCAN.
| l. Give the anatomy of the lining
membrane of the stomach. What juice
is secreted by it? What part of food is
affected by it?
2. What is osmotic action? What is
absorption? In what particular parts of
the body is it carried on?
3. What is the liver? Where is it?
What is its function? What is bile?
Where does it accumulate? Into what
is it emptied? What is its function?
f. What is the heart? Where is it
located? Why? What tubes connect
with it? What is each called?
5. What is the pneumogastric nerve?
What organs does it control? Is it white
or gray matter, or both?
6. What is the optic nerve? Where
| is its origin? Where does it terminate?
What are its ends called? What is the
cause of near sightedness?
z. Describe the bones in the different
periods of life. The same of the skin,
of the appetite.
GRAMMAR.
(Omit t,oo.)
l. What is an attribute complement?
What may be used as such2-GtVe ex-
amples of each.
2. Define the different uses of the in
finitive. Give sentences illustrating each.
Do the same of the participle.
8. Write sentences showing the differ
net constructions of the noun clause,
and also of the adverb clause.
4. Decline the personal pronouns in
full.
5. Give in full the conjugation of the
verb am.
6. Give the different forms of conju-
cation of the verb; tell how each is
formed, and then illustrate each in a
sentence.
z. Not to wear ones best things every
day, is a maxim of New England thrift,
which is as little disputed as any verse
in the catechism. Diagram.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
(Omit tloo.)
l. Define theory, and also practice.
2. Give evidences that both the theory
and the practice in teaching branch is
correct
8. Give your method of teaching
grammar.
4. Give your reasons for adopting this
method.
5. Is education a science? Why do
you think so?
6. What should be the qualifications
and spirit of good teacher, when CON-
mencing a school?
z. What should be his experiences
when closing it?
GEOGRAPHY.
(Omit tlUo.)
T. P. HARRIS.
l. Under what four characteristic
plant regions may the vegetation of the
q. S. be arranged?
2. What agencies produce the changes
to which the earth's crust is now subject?
3. What is plateau? By what five
rivers is the plateau of Thibet drained?
4. What are ocean currents? In what
respect are they important,and what may
be said of their influence upon climate?
5. Name four tobacco producing states,
four rice-producing states, four cotton
producing states.
6. Draw map of any state in the U. |
S. except Ohio, and locate its principal