The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-01-25
SCHOOL EXAMINERS.
A List Of Questions Propounded on
Saturday, January 90, 1894.
PHYSIOLOGY

Compare ones constitution with
deposit in the bank.
Name the three uses of bones. Why
are certain bones hollow Round? II.
lustrate. Compare the resisting prop
erty of bone with that of solid oak.
What is the complexion? Its cause 7?
Why is scar white? What is the
cause of "tanning?" What are freckles
Albinos?
What are the cappillaries? Their
distinctive function Z? What is the Office
Of the lymphatics Give some illustra.
tions OF the action of the lymphatics.
NARCOTICS.
Name the different kinds of alcohols.
Which is the best known and most inn
portant of the alcohols.
State the effects of pure alcohol. OF
diluted alcohol. At what temperature
will pure alcohol boil /? Freeze?
What change takes place in alcoholic
fermentation
State the proportion of alcohol in
common liquors Why is lager beer
so called?
What is the chief cause of intemper.
ance? What three infallible tests has
Nature furnished to distinguish poison
stimulant from harmless and nutritive
substance.
ARITHMETIC.
Find the l.. G. M. of IA 2-7, 8 Ill,
16 2-3, and %, and divide it by the G.
c. d. of A 40, SAG 2-3, and $3.50.
Express in figures three hundred and
| fifty-eight thousand and six ten mill
ionths. Four million and four mil
| lionths.
How many ounces of gold weigh as
much as pound of lead?
Convert los degrees F. to degrees OF
the other two thermometers.
If A has esq less money than B
then BIS money is how many per cent.
more than AS?
The cost IN store OF 20 puncheons
Jamaica rum 81 gallons each is 1851 .43; /;
duty 15%, leakage 2T, charges $53 "a |;
what did it cost gall lon in Jamaica?
If men can do work in 81 days,
how much time could be saved by en-
| ploving 4 more men
Had an article cost 10 per cent. less,
the gain per cent. would have been Is
per cent. more; what was the per cent.
gain Answer 2S5 81.
At what times between and o'clock
is the minute hand as far from 8 as
the hour hand is from 3?
| had a go day note discounted at 1%
a month and paid $4 so above true in
terest what was the face of the note !?
GEOGRAPHY.
| Locate the Sandwich Islands by Civ
: ing latitude and longitude. Name three
of the largest of these islam Is. Give
two reasons of their great importance
to the U. S
Account for the fact that our warmest
| ,yoofhn,- affnr fha al
stict and ourGoldest weather ate. the
Winter Solstice.
Name the kingdoms of Europe the
republics; the monarchies; the abso-
lutte monarchies.
Name three conditions under which
rain may be produced. Under which
conditions are the heaviest produced
Why?
What and where are Brisbane, hiva,
Odessa, Carthagena, Para, Parana, Par.
ina, Cass, Bass, Messina, Fez, Patapsco
Describe igneous, aqueous, and meta
morphic rocks.
Define each of the several kinds of
moraines.
Name five of the largest forest areas
in the world. Name the rainless regions
of North America.
Prove that the earth revolves around
the sun. Prove that the earth is an OBJ
late spheroid.
What do you understand by Kuro
Sivo? Maelstrom? Travertine Puma ?
Mistral Hypsometry?
A travelled north from Quito one de.
gree and B travelled east one degree.
Which travelled farther? Why?
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
| Give directions as to ventilation of a
school room. At what temperature
should it be kept?
What is the Imagination? What is
memory? What is phantasy? Show
the difference between imagination and
pbantasy
Through which of the senses does q
child conceive most clearly? Accord
ingly, how should a subject be present.
ed?
Name some benefits you have derived
from reading works on teaching.
| Do you believe in Furnishing pupil :?
II 80, what are some proper punish
ments?
What part of our knowledge is orig.
inal with us? In what way does our
knowledge depend on the testimony of
others?
Do you belong to any teachers asso.
! CldtlOu CuOuiu you why w nab
professional reading should young
teacher do Whya
Name the representative activities of
intellect. The preventative activities.
The elaborate, or thought, activities.
Tell how you would teach language
inductively.
What can the teacher do to cultivate
the reasoning power OF his pupils?
| GRAMMAR.
Diagram and give construction of itali-
| cized words:
"For while 80 near each other thus all day
| Our task we choose, ,Ulldt soonder If so near
| Looks intervene and smiles, or object new.
| Casual discourse, draw on !; which intermits
Our days work, brought to little, though begun
Early, and the hour Of supper comes unesrned." !"
| What is the antecedent which 7? What
can you say about the subject of the
principal clause?
Write six sentences using the relative
pronoun differently in each sentence.
Do you think you are entitled to a Ger.
tificate If you fail to answer this ques-
ton? Why?
Whan do Won uaa the comnound raj.