Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-01
TEACHERS examination.
INSTRUCTORS WE'RE SUBJECTED TO
A TEST IN ELEMENTARY
BRANCHES.
COLsED AT NOON YESTERDAY
One Hundred and Eighty Teachers
Took the ExaminatiOn-The Cues
tions That Were Asked-High
school Teachers to Be Tested in
Higher Branches at Some Future
Date.

Higher Branches at Some Future
Date.
Wheeling public schools was concluded
at noon yesterday by the examining
board, consisting of Supt w. H. An
derson and Messrs. ]. A. Miller and A.
O. Maxwell, of the Board of Education.
One hundred and eighty teachers were
examined in the four days, including
the principals. Some of them were
from Ohio, aud a number from Ohio
and other counties in this State. It
will be some time before the papers are
returned TO the teachers with their
grades. The examination of the HigA
schools teachers in the higher branches
will take place later on
The studies in which the teachers
were tested are photography, grammar,
definitions, writing, reading, physiol
ogy, history, arithmetic, bookkeeping
and geography. Following were the
questions:
Bookkeeping.
l. Name the books usually required
in "a merchants counting-hOuse. State
ne purpose for which each is used.
?. STATE how you would open, conduct
and close an account.
3. What is Journalism? Posting? A
trial balance? A balance shee,.
4. Accounts are divided into what
two great classes?
5. Explain the nature of the following
accounts: Merchandise account, inter
est account. and prof. and loss account.
6. What are bills payable? Bills re-
ceivable? How do you open, conduct
and close a bills payable account?
I. Enter the following transactions as
you would in a day-book transfer them
to ledger and balance the account:
June 4, sold John Smith 4 TBS. of tea
at $1.00 per. 10; June 7, bbls of flour,
= $500 per Dbl; June 10, rs lbs. of
mere at 5000 per yd.; oune Z, he paid
me $500; June IA, his daughter, Mary,
bought 10 yds. of calico at 7c; so yds.
CT sneeting. az 15c; and one pair of
gloves at $125: June 20, he paid $1,000.
Make Ill of the above, enter a credit
for the balance and receipt the same.
Arithmetic.
/. (a) Add 20 square rods, 10 square
yards, Is square inches, to II square
yards, square feet, 1870 square inches.
(b) LIvide .08 by .0016; also by
?. How much will it cost to roof with
slate a warehouse AZ feet by 90 feet, the
height of the ridge being 10 feet and the
caves projecting inches, at S1450 per
100 suqare fee,
:. Solve by analysis: ow far will
man drive in % hours, at the rate of
miles in 3,--ours?
4. A lawyer collected 65 per cent. Of
a note OF $3.50 and charged GA per cent.
on the amount collected How much
aid the owner Of the note receive!
), If a stake 7 feet high casts a
shadow of 51a feet, what length of
shadow will a steeple 1872 feet cast at
the same hour of day?
6. Find yAe interest of $50 for
years, months, 10 days, at per cent.
I. How much will it cost at 80 cents
per cubic yard to eXcavate a cellar Ga
feet deep under main building 40 by
81 feet, and trenches IA feet wide and
2 feet deep for the walls of an ex-
tension 20 feet square?
8. "A. spends 2-3 Of his income for
board, 23 of the remainder for clothes.
and % OF the residue for charity and
saves $500 yearly. What is his income?
8. what per cent. do | make on
money invested in stock at $50 a share,
whose par value is 800 and dividends
6 per cent. on par value?
10. a person invested $3.50 in bank
stock at 115, and received an average
annual income of $3.50; what was the
of interest on the money invested?
History.
l. What was the basis of the Eng
llsh claim to America?
2. What caused the French and In
dian wars and the War of 1912?
3. When was the federal currency
adopted?
4. Give the substance of the Monroe
doctrine. Under what circumstances
and in what manner were its PRINCIPLES
enforced by our government during
the civil war? What recent interna
tional event has led to a worldwide
discussion of this doctrine?
5. With what nation have we a
treaty restricting immigration?
8. What was the Kansas Nebraska
bill?
L What was the population Of West
Virginia in 1890?
s. To what political party did each
of the following belong: Danl Web
ster VIM H. Seward and SteDhen A.
Douglass?
g. What Presidents have been re-
elected and which were elected with
out opposition?
TO- State the conditions which caus-
ed the formation of West Virginia IN
to a separate State?
Physiology.
l. Define anatomy, physiology, hy-
giene
? Name the salivary glands, and
tell the action of saliva on the food
What is gastric juice? What is its
action?
f. When a muscle is in action, how
does it compare with the same muscle
in a state of relaxation, as to length?
AS 10 thickness? AS to hardness?
6. What process must the flr, we
take in food, undergo before II can be
absorbed into the blood? Descr;ce
the process.
I. Name five articles of food which
are rich in albumen.
8. Define the following: chyme,
chyle, aqueous humor, yitreous hum
or, synovia
8. What effect on the hearts action
has the use of tobacco by children, or
the excessive use of it by adults?