The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-09-26
SCHOOL EXAMINERS.
A List Of Questions Propounded on
Saturday, September 81, 1895.
ARITHMETIC,

during the second year, ZO% during the
third year, and 1870 during the fourth
year. What was the amount Of the
sales during the first year, II the fourth
years sales were $6O248
The area Of an equilateral triangular
| field is 20 times the square root of 8
acres. W,at is the length of one side
80 days sight, be bought in Boston, dis.
count 6%, exchange w premium, what
will be the cost?
A farmer took go bu. of wheat to the
mill to have ground, the miller charging
SO and taking out in grain. If one bu.
of wheat will make 45 lbs. of -four, how
| many barrels of -four should the farmer
get =?
sof 8 1.5 is 25% less than what num-
ber I? Show analysis.
sold my corn, paying 80 conn.,; had
my agent invest the net proceeds in
wheat, com. 2%. His whole commission
was $3.50. What was each commission
If the longitude of Washington is 10
81 w., what is the longitude Of place
that has IL M, when it is p. m. at
Washington?
If stock bought at 1O% premium pays
go on the Investment, what would it
pay If bought at 1919 discount.
How many acres in triangular field
whose sides are 35, 55 and 80 rods
Show work.
What is the rate of discount when go
day notes will yield SO interest ?
GRAMMAR.
Name and define three figures of
these.
Define gerund, peroration, periodic,
sentence, syntax, and false syntax.
What are the "oblique cases. of
nouns and pronouns Why so called
What is the adverbial objective ? Illus.
trate.
What is the'participal infinitive2 The
root infinitive Write and classify the
participles of forsake.
What are the distinctions in the uses
of that and which as relative pronouns?
Write model business letter order.
ing copy of some book for teachers.
(No credit unless it possess the merits
of properly written letter.)
Tell the gender of each and write the
opposite gender: spinster, swain, earl,
hart, host, czar, friar, dauphin, bicyclist,
baker, tailor, milliner, editor.
Write three nouns that have no singu.
lar form, but always require singular
verbs. When does a collective noun in
singular require plural verb?
By diagram show construction OF itali.
cized words:
The duke yet lives, that Henry shall depose.
Mark but my fall and that that ruined me.
The generals popularity as Commander
increases.
Diagram:
"There's Holmes, who is matchless among you
A Leyden-jar always full-charged, from which
The electrical tingles o, hit after hit.
His are just the fine hands, too to weave you
Full Of i.ncy. fun, feeling, or spiced with
In SO kindly measure that nobody knows
What to DO but just join in the laugh, friends
GEOGRAPHY.
How is the moisture of the atmos.
phere condensed?
(a) What are glaciers? ? How are ice.
bergs formed?
| (a) What are Mathematical zones
(b) Physical zones? (c) Why are they
not the same?
What may be said Of the utility of
mountains?
| What political divisions of South
America are crossed by the Tropic of
Capricorn
What is the metropolis OF New Eng.
land? Ohio Indiana? Illinois ? Penn.
sylvania? New York? Missouri?
Locate the following cities: Genoa,
Berne, Trieste. Marseilles, Havre, Bar.
celona, Hamburg.
Where is Harvard University? Yale
College? Ann Arbor? Columbia Col.
lege +?
Give and locate five of the principal
natural curiousities of the United States
What countries on this globe have the
greatest natural advantages for com.
merce?
HISTORY.
(a) Upon whose discoveries did the
English base their claim to the coast
from New Foundland to Virginia? (b)
Upon whose explorations did the Dutch
base their claim to the coast from Cape
Cod to Delaware Bay?
Trace the course of La Sale from the
mouth of the st. Lawrence to the Miss.
issippi.
Name the three classes OF Colonial
governments evisting at the beginning
Of the Revolution. Tell to which the
following belonged: New York, Penn.
sylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,,
Virginia.
What was the origin of the debt, the
imposition of which, upon the colonies,
was one of the causes of the Revolution ?
Mention two of the leading military
operations OF the year 1910.
What was the national capital during
Washington 3 administration In whose
administration was the Capital removed
to Washington
To what man are we chiefly indebted
for the purchase of Louisiana Name
states since taken from that territory.
What reason did the United States al.
lege for declaring war upon Mexico ?
What was the real reason for forcing
Mexico into war?
Not That Kind.