The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-05-10
SCHOOL EXAMINERS.
A List Of Questions Propounded on
Saturday, May 9Th 1884,,
HISTORY.

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French and English colonies? Give
cause and date of each war.
By what acts were the colonies sepa-
rated from England?
Name five battles of the civil war.
Name five Union Generals. Name five
Rebel Generals.
Describe the beginning OF Ohio and
name it's first and last governors.
Describe w. H. Harrison's election
and time of service.
What was the Kansas. Nebraska Bill
and state its consequences.
Name the thirteen original colonies.
Name the eleven seceeded states.
Name the three campaigns and the
leaders of each in our war with Mexico.
ARITHMETIC.
Find the annual interest of $500 for
5 years at 1915.
Find the compound interest of $500
for years at 10%.
Find the 18th term of an arithmetical
series OF 8, Z, II, &c.
I collect for A, $26S.4O and have SD
commission how much do pay over
Add ten thousand and one millionths;
four hundred. d.thousandth SO hundred
tbs forty.se seven million sixty thousand
and and eight billionths.
A bequeathed 11.20 of his estate to his
elder son the rest to his younger, who
received 1926 less than his brother.
What was the estate?
What time at Columbus Qong. $50 81
W., when it is p. m. at Baltimore
Qong. 76o 81 W.?
What relative quantities of alcohol,
"a, S6, 88, "a and 96% strong must be
taken for mixture S7% strong. Prove
your answer.
1 had a note for $1,000 discounted at
Bank for mo-, at 7%. The proceeds
were invested in wheat at 81 65 bushel.
How many bushels did | buy?
"A man wishing to sell a horse and
COW, asked three times as much for the
horse as the COW, but finding no pur-
chasers, he reduced the price OF the
horse 300 and the price of the cow 1870,
he get for each?
GRAMMAR.
Write sentence containing a noun
in the absolute case. Write sentence
containing noun in opposition with
another noun.
What are the principal parts of the
verb? What is mode?
How many participles Write sen.
tences illustrating the use of each.
Decline he and we.
How are verbs divided according to
form? Use?
Write sentences containing all the
uses of the infinitive and tell the use of
the infinitive in each.
Write sentence containing an objec-
tive element of the Sd class.
What is noun clause?
(a) Write sentence containing an
adjective element of the third class. (b)
Write sentence containing an adjec.
tive element of I'd, class. (c) Write
sentence containing an adjective ele.
ment of tho LIST class.
Diagram and give construction of ital-
icized words.
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream;
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not 'ohdt they seem.
ARITAMETIC.
Is arithmetic science or an art?
Give the length in feet of the side of
a square acre.
B wishes to use $500 for go days. For
what must he give his note at bank, dis.
count being per cent.
Divide one and forty.four- -hundreths
by one and forty.four .millionths
Find the radius, circumference and
area of field 35 rods in diameter.
10 per cent of Is is how per cent of J?
What is analysis in arithmetic
Define mathematics, arithmetic, prob.
lem, quantity, abstract number, concrete
number.
Express IL plus 2 5.6 divided by 81
plus 1.5 as simple fraction.
Four times 20 of q number, is 12 less
hc hot 30 H. 1or Q
GEOGRAPHY.
How are springs produced? What
are artisan wells?
Give illustrations of continental is.
lands, oceanic islands.
How are rocks classified? What are
fossils?
What causes the tide?
Define isotherm, cotidal line, steppe,
tundra, zone.
Name the natural divisions of land.
How did the earth become solid2
What is supposed to be the condition |
of the interior of the earth !? Give reas- |
ons for your answer.
What are some of the proofs of the |
rotundity of the earth ?
What is physical geography?
PHYSIOLOGY.
Is alcohol food? Does alcohol slake
thirst ?
What is the organ of Sight? Taste /
Hearing? Smelling? Touch?
What is toothache? How many teeth
are there?
Locate the stomach. The heart. The
liver.
What gives the blood it's color? What
are the two kinds of blood !?
Name the organs of circulation.
Why is the regularity of the meals
necessary for the maintenance of good
health?
What is the Esophagus Trachea
Name the bones of the Uranium. The
bones of face. The bones of the ear.
What is ossifcation What are the
two varieties of muscles? What is the
skeleton?
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Mimi, opens June 80 under the manage
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