The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-04-17

In six months?
10. A farmer sold team of horses
for s440, but did not receive his pay for
them until one year eight months after
the sale. He had at the same time an
other offer of s410 for them. Did he gain
or lose by the sale, and how much,
money being worth per cent?
II. The pendulum of one clock makes
% beats in 2S seconds, and that Of an
other clock 80 beats in "a seconds. II
the clocks are started at the same mo-
ment, when first after starting will the
clocks beat together again?
IL. A tree was three feet in dame
| ter at the butt. and its diameter at
height of 40 feet was one foot. What
were the cubical contents of that por-
tion of the tree?
LITERATURE.
Applicants for primary certificates
will answer the first eight questions
only.
| /. Give the chief characteristics and
name a masterpiece of each of the fol-
lowing: Chauser, Spencer, Shakespeare.
! Bacon and Milton.
2. Make a comparison between the
poetry of Whittier and Longfellow.
3. Quote a memory gem from Gray's
Elegy Pope's Essay on Criticism, Evan
geline and Bryant's Thanatopsis.
4. Who wrote each and to what de-
partment of literature does it belong:
Romola, Among My Books, The Raven
and the Princess?
| 5. From what author and work are
the following extracts:
After lfe's fitful fever he sleeps
We'll"
From scenes Ike these old Scotia's
grandeur springs
II sometimes hold 1t half a sin
To put in words the grief feel"
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong
forever on the throne"
| Build thee more stately mansions,
| o my soul"
6. outline one of Shaespeare's plays.
| Z. In what productions are the follow
ing characters found: Mr.. Micawber,
| Ophelia, Henry Esmond and Rebecca
the Jewess?
| s. Name the greatest allegory, satire,
epic and drama in the language. Give
author of each.
treated of by the following historians:
Edward Gibbon, T. B. Macauley,
Thomas Carlyle, J. r. Green, and w.
II. Prescott?
10. To what extent is the reading of
fiction profitable? Give reasons for your
answer.
| PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
1. Define and explain the forma-
tion of spring; an artesian we'll; a
geyser; a cave.
2. Define erosion; detritus sail; dew;
vapor.
8. How are glaciers formed? How
can their former presence in a region
be detected?
4. Explain the formation of sand
stone; marble; bituminous coal, an
thracite coal; petroleum.; natural gas.
5. Why do the northwest coast of N.
A. and the southwest coast of S. A.
receive abundant rainfall? Why is there
little rainfall in the region east Of these
coasts?
6. Show how climate may affect pro-
ducts and occupations.
Z. What is the earths size; shape;
movements?
s. Make list Of the worlds great
lake regions.
GEOGRAPHY.
!. Define great circle; tropics; river
basin; isothermal lines.
| 2. What determines the width of the
zones? Bound the north temperate zone
and name the principal political divis-
ions within It.
3. Name five of the principal causes
affecting the climate of country. De-
fine continental climate. Insular eli Z.
mate.
4. Bound Stark county and name the
townships in some regular order
D. What are the movements of the
sea and how produced.
6. Name the capes of N. A., the seas
In and around Europe and the penin-
sulas of Asia.
Z. Describe the surface of S. A.
.. What Is the end of government.
and in what forms is 1t found among
men?
| 3. Much Of the soil Of Ohio is of
foreign origin" Elucidate.
10. Name all the waters on which
you would sail in going from Vienna
to st. Petersburg.
| THEORY AND PRACTICE.
| ]. Name six characteristics of your
ideal teacher.
z. Name some Of the best methods
OF punishment of which you approve.
| .. Mention some Of the most serious
dlfncuities you have in managing your
school,
| 4. What is the ultimate object of
all true education?
4. What will be the effect If you dis
grace a pupil in the eyes of his COM
panions; or IL you continually tell your
scholars how stupid and bad they are?
'~7,," SPELLING.
j, Clumsy; 2, ardor; 9, bulletin; 4,
assessor; 5, pursuant 6, redundant; 7,
gallery; 8, amateur; 8, synonym; 10,
Sabbath; II, maintenance; 12, cuckoo:
u, woolen; IA, warrant; 10, battalion;
10, curfew; II, ambassador; IS, cessa-
| ton; IS. traceable; 20, changeable; 81.
summed; 22. combustible 23, abhor-
renee; "a, accordance; 25, irritable; 26.
trisyllable; 27, transmissible; 2s, con-
veyor; 20, disembarrass; 80, persistency;
81, perplex; 80, Philippine islands: SO.