OCTOBER, 1880. (Three hours and a half allowed.) ARITHMETIC. Males. 1. If 1,095 pks. of yams cost £103 15s. 114d., find the value of 50 pks. and of 1 pk. 2. A dealer bought 9 oxen at £11 17s. 8d. each; one died, and he sold the remainder at a profit of £2 2s. 2§d. each. What did he gain on the whole transaction? 3. A franc (French money) being equal in value to 93d. English money, convert £6 11s. 7 d. into French money. (How many francs?) 4. A man was engaged to work 36 days, on condition that he should receive 2s. 6d. for each day he worked, and pay his employer 1s. 6d. for each day he was idle; at the end of the time he received £3 2s. Od. How many days was he idle? 5. A piano, table, and carpet cost £63 5s. 6d. ; the piano and table cost £54 14s. 9d., and the table and carpet £26 0s. 4d. Find the price of each article. Females. 1. Make out the following bill:-16 stones of flour at 2s. 8d. per stone; 25 lbs. of cheese at 8d. per lb.; 271⁄2 lbs. of coffee at 1s. 5d. per lb.; 19 lbs. of pork at 9d. per lb.; 56 lbs. of butter at 1s. 7d. per lb. ; 63 lbs. of tea at 38. 4d. per lb. 2. Find, by Practice, the value of 1,908 articles at £77 158. 2 d. each. 3. Find the cost of 49 ac. 3 ro. 14 per. at £63 18s. 9d. per acre. 4. A farmer gave £43 17s. 4d. for 28 sheep; 6 of them died. At what rate must he sell the rest, in order to gain £3 16s. by his bargain? GRAMMAR. 1. What is meant by the subject of the verb? What case is it always in? Give examples. 2. What is the meaning of "intransitive" as applied to verbs? Into what classes may intransitive verbs be divided? 3. What adjectives do not admit of comparison? Give examples, and show why they do not. 4. Parse the verbs and adjectives in the following : "Night sank upon the dusky beach, and on Such night in England ne'er had been, nor GEOGRAPHY. MACAULAY. 1. What is the nearest railway station to your home? By what lines of railway should you travel from it to go to London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Bristol? Trace the journey to one of these places as minutely as you can. 2. Write a letter, as from a boy going to sea, describing what he has seen between London and Land's End, supposing his ship to have been within sight of land all the way. If you can, draw a map of the South Coast of England in illustration. 3. Name two of the highest mountains in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Give the height of each, and say exactly where it is. COMPOSITION. Write from dictation this passage given out by the Inspector : "Every breath of summer wind that steals through | a pine forest wakes a sweet music as it goes. The stiff spiny leaves of the fir and pine | vibrate with the breeze like the strings of a musical instrument, | so that the night wind | in a forest in Norway | wakens a myriad | of tiny harps, and this gentle and mournful music | may be heard in gushes | the whole night through. "This music, of course, ceases | when each tree | becomes laden with snow; but yet there is sound in the midst of the longest night of winter, the loud crack of ice in the nearest glacier, or the rumble of the mass of snow that falls from the nearest peak." PENMANSHIP. Write, in large hand, as a specimen of copy-setting, the word Ritualistic. Write, in small hand, as a specimen of copy-setting, Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur. NOVEMBER, 1880. (Three hours and a half allowed.) ARITHMETIC. Males. 1. Find, by Practice, the difference in cost between 190 articles at £1 5s. 6d. each, and 198 articles at 17s. 113d. each. 2. If I can buy 21 cwts. 3 qrs. 21 lbs. of cheese for £93 12s. Od., what should be paid for 34 cwts. of the same sort? 3. If 56 men earn £228 12s. Od. in 314 days, how many of these men, working for 3 days, should be paid £19 1s. Od.? 4. A man who owes £9,619 14s. 6d. can pay only 1s. 8d. in the £. What are his effects worth? Females. 1. Find the cost of 3,764 articles at £18 14s. 74d. each. 2. What is the value of 17 tons 16 cwt. 2 qrs. 7 lbs. at £6 7s. 10d. per cwt. ? 3. What would be the cost of constructing a telegraph for a distance of 590 mls. 7 fur. 4 po. at £386 10s. per mile? 4. Make out the following bill :-49 pairs of blankets at 19s. 9d. per pair; 217 yds. of muslin at 1s. 6d. per yd.; 91 pairs of stockings at 1s. 9d. per pair; 231 yds. of calico at 10d. per yd.; 126 pairs of gloves at 3s. 3d. per pair. GRAMMAR. 1. Point out and parse all the adjectives and verbs in the following :— "'Tis merry, 'tis merry in Fairy-land When fairy birds are singing, When the court doth ride by their monarch's side And gaily shines the Fairy-land, But all is glistening show, Like the idle gleam that December's beam Can dart on ice and snow." 2. In comparing adjectives, when do you add er and est, and when more and most? Give examples. 3. Give the feminine gender of the following words : bachelor, bridegroom, lord, earl, nephew. GEOGRAPHY. 1. Which are the most indented parts of the coasts of Great Britain? And which are the least indented? Show that your answer is right, by describing minutely the parts of the coast which you mention. 2. Describe, as fully as you can, the islands in the German Ocean, the English Channel, and the Irish Sea, not including Great Britain and Ireland. 3. Trace, in words, the course of a traveller from Edinburgh, by Stirling, Lock Lomond, and Oban, to Inverness; describing, as minutely as you can, what he would see on his journey. COMPOSITION. Write from dictation this passage given out by the Inspector: "If you have eyes and brains you will hardly care | to fish such a stream as that, whether she be roaring down in full flood like coffee covered with cream, while the fish are swirling at your fly, or flashing up the cataract, out of the fiercest | of the foam, or whether she be dwindled | to a single thread while the salmon huddle in one dark cloud | in the clear amber pool; | for you will lay down | your rod and drink in at your | eyes the beauty of glorious nature, and watch the yellow roes come to drink and look at you with their great, soft, trustful eyes." PENMANSHIP. Write, in large hand, as a specimen of copy-setting, the word Selfishness. Write, in small hand, as a specimen of copy-setting, I should not die but in Jerusalem. 1. Find the total value of 375 of a guinea; ·54 of 8s. 3d., and 027 of £2 15s. 2. What part of 3 weeks 4 days is of 5 seconds? 3. Express - of a guinea as the fraction of £3. 4. Express each of the following sums as a decimal of 2 d. 5s., a florin, sixpence, fourpence, a half-penny. 3 1 31/ 5. A person possessing of an estate sold of of his share for £120 12s. 6d. ; what would of of the estate sell for at the same rate? Females. 1. If 2 tons are carried 7 miles for a certain sum, how far will 3 cwt. 2 qrs. be carried for the same money? 2. If £3 17s. 10 d. be the value of an ounce of gold, what is the value of a gold tankard weighing 2 lbs. 5 oz. 12 dwt. 2 gr.? 3. If in a compound there are 99 parts of pure metal to 13 of alloy, how much alloy is contained in 1 ton 13 cwt. 3 qrs. of the metal? |