The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-11-16

oOHHO VI tHOH LSdCn0TS-1HE CHRONICLE
will publish list of the questions asked
at the teachers examination, which
closed yesterday. Following are the
questions asked in mental arithmetic,
orthography and penmanship:
MENTAL ARITHMETIC.
/. How many cents are ten melons
worth, it melons are worth 10 oranges
and oranges are worth II cents?
2. A man sold a cow for s25 and
thereby cleared one-ffth of his money
how much will he have gained if he had
sold it for $50?
8. AS money added to BIS, being on
interest for years and 4 months,
amounts to $500; which sum has each,
if AS is times BIS?
A. A lady, wishing to buy some
ribbon, found that if she bought that at
III cents yard she would lack 9 cents of
having enough to pay for it, but if she
bought that at cents per yard she
would have cents remaining. How
much meney had she?
8; A can dig ditch in DAYS and B
In b Gays; IN what time can they dig it
working together?
6. In a droye of 100 animals, consist
ing OF horses and COWS, there are 40
COWS; how many horses must sell that
there may be horses to COWS.
Z. A man, dying, divided $4,000
among his 8 sons, whose ages were g, IL
ana IL years, respectively, so that the
different shares, being on interest at 5
per cent, would amount to equal sums
when they became of age; what were
the shares?
8. A man lost four-fifth of all his
money and then found q as much as he
lost and then had $40; how much money
had he at first?
g.. A being asked the time of day, re-
plled that one-siXth of the time to mid
night equals one-half of the time past
noon; what was the time?
~ The sum OF two numbers is So,
ana the greater equals 8 times the less,
diminished by 5; what are the numbers?
oRTHoGRAPHY.
Indicate the pronunciation of the
following: Docile, ask, neuralgia, elite, |
heinous.
2. What are synonyms, homonyms?
Give example of each.
.. In what does the analysis of a
word consist2 Define and give an ex-
ample of prefix and suffix.
a.. Make the following diacritical
marks, and tell US the use of each
Macron, breve, tide, cedilla, circumfex.
D. Define and illustrate diphthong.
monosyllabie, deriyative word.
PENMANsHIP
l. What position do you recommend
ior pupils in writing? (al Feet, (b) body,
(c) arms.
2. How many spaces below the line
does the letter j. p, q, f extend?
D. Analyze, in accordance with some
system of penmanship, the following
letters: a, r, w. n.
T. Give three characteristics of good
eNo
5. Make the principles used in the
Spencerian system.
Lives of great men all remind US
we can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time. .
-Longfellow.
Give the foregoing as a specimen of
Four writing.
The lecture course instituted by the
aides of the Congregational church i.
eems to be meeting with general favor. {
large number of tickets have been sold
md but small number of people been 1
cen. The course is gotten up for those ]
people who care for something else be-
ldes whist parties and dances and enioy /
Intellectual food. 1t is the first ex- '
ieriment of the kind ever tried in The I
)alles and we hope it will be an unouaIi- l
led success. It is not a money making
chene but the admission is to cover .
he expenses of the men who are to lec- =
ure. An opportunity to hear such :,
nan as George H. Williams should be
rasped by everyone. Ex-United States
enator and attorney General in Presi-
ent Grants cabinet, he has been in the C
lidst OF statecraft at most important q
lncture. What he says about s'Recon- r< r<
obstruction" will be in a large measure 81
ON personal experience. Judge Will
ans is but one of the able men who ap-
ear in the course. The movment should Il
e heartily supported. n n
j. M. Phillips, general agent of the
owe Readick combination, arrived in
'wn this morning. Mr.. Phillips saws
le company will play at the Baldwin .
oera house Wednesday, Thursday, FRI q
~ and Saturday evenings. The repor
ire of the. company is "Tony, the Out XII
ST." Monte Cristo," forbidden. ,, fu
i'd ''The American Girl" The follow to
g well-known artists are in the COM Sh
my: Mr.. Frank Readick, Mr.. Cor