Pusy, Winfield, Iowa; A. B. Carroll, Morning Sun, Iowa'; Oscar McKim, Ft. Madison, Iowa; Nicholas Messer, Keokuk, Iowa.

Several applicants failed to complete this examination, while others. did not reach the required standard in branches to which comparatively little attention is given in the great majority of our schools. I may name as among such branches, drawing and philosophy of education. It must not be inferred that the standing required was reached in all other branches.

In order to convey a correct idea of the character of the examination, I append hereto the rules for the government of the board, together with a complete list of questions used at the examination last named.

RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS.

1. Candidates for State certificates must have a general average of 85 per cent, and for diplomas a general average of 90 per cent shall be required upon all certificate branches, and 85 per cent upon all additional branches, provided that neither certificate nor diploma shall be granted when the candidate falls below 75 per cent in any of the following branches: Arithmetic, English Grammar, History of United States, Orthography and Geography; or below 65 per cent in any of the following: Reading, Writing, Book-keeping, Physiology, Algebra, Botany, Natural Philosophy, Drawing, Civil Government, Constitution and laws of Iowa, and Didactics; or below 60 per cent on any of the following: Geometry, Trigonmetry, Chemistry, Zoology, Geology, Astronomy, Political Economy, Rhetoric, English Literature and General History.

2. Applicants must in all cases present a certificate of good moral character from the superintendent of the county in which they reside, and also from two other reputable citizens of the same county.

The following lists of questions were used at the Des Moines and Burlington examinations for certificates, March 28, 1883:

ORTHOGRAPHY.

TIME, FORTY MINUTES.

1. Put into proper shape as to punctuation, capitals and versification the following:

to be or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them to die to sleep no more and by a

sleep to say we end the heart ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to tis a consumation devoutly to be wished to die to sleep to sleep perchance to dream aye there's the rub for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil

2. What rule in Orthography (or rules, if more than one) will apply to each of the following words: Conferring, Chargeable, Robbed, Flies, Dying, Dyeing, Refusal, Immovable.

3. What rules are violated in the following: Truely, Monkies, Benefitted, Denyal.

READING.

TIME, FORTY MINUTES.

1. What is the advantage. of much practice in reading?

2. Mention three rules that should be observed in teaching reading to advanced classes.

3. What attention should be given to this subject in other than the reading lessons?

4. What are your methods of securing natural tones, and proper delivery? 5. Mention any rules that apply to inflection.

6. What is the design of punctuation?

7. How do you use the dictionery in connection with reading classes? 7. What constitutes a good reader?

8. What is your method of teaching beginners?

9. To what extent should supplementary or home reading be required of the pupil?

10. Do you ever require your pupils to commit to memory passages upon which they are to be exercised and drilled? If so, for what reason?

2. Form all the letters one space in height and mark the principles.

3. Form the letters two spaces in height, and the looped letters.

4. Describe the position of the body, feet, arms, and pen-holding in writing.

6. Illustrate slant and tell the different movements.

7. Form all the capitals which require the capital stem, the direct oral, the reversed oval.

8. Give a method of opening, conducting and closing a writing class.

9. Give some reasons for preferring copy-books for pupil's use.

10. Tell why teacher should keep books and pens when class is not writing.

ARITHMETIC.

TIME, TWO HOURS.

1. Find the G. C. D. of 468 and 1768 by at least two processes, and demonstrate the process by division of the less into the greater.

2. State and demonstrate a rule for dividing one fraction by another. 3. Copy the following table. On the line with percentage, in the several columns, write the terms thereof. Opposite each of the other subjects in the first column, write under each term in percentage, the corresponding term of that subject:

Percentage.

Profit and Loss

Commission...

Interest

True Discount..

Bank Discount.

Stocks...

Insurance

Exchange.

4. Which is the better investment, and how much, one of $4,200, yielding $168 semi-annually, or one of $7,500 producing $712.50 annually?

5. A and B are partners; A's stock is to B's as 4 to 5; after three months A withdraws two thirds of his and B three fourths of his; divide their year's gain, $1,675.

6. Of two pieces of land, the one a circle of 17 rods in diameter, the other a triangle whose hypotenuse is 30 rods and whose base is 24 rods, which is the larger, and how much?

7. Write a full synopsis of Ratio and Proportion. Demonstrate the fundamental principle of Proportion.

8. Name and describe the principal units of the Metric system. Write the table for capacity. Explain the meaning of the prefixes used.

9. Explain the process of extracting the cube root by one of the two regular modes, indicating the adaption of it to class instruction. You can employ 91125 if you need a number which is a power.

10. Write the general formula for the value of S, Arithmetrical series, and demonstrate it.

GEOGRAPHY.

TIME, ONE HOUR.

1. Begin with Maine, and all the States and Territorries bordering on the British possessions, and name capitals of each.

2. Locate Savannah, Glasgow, Tokio, Timbuctoo, Madras, Sitka, Santiago, and Vera Cruz.

3. Take a cargo from Natchez to Odessa, and name all the bodies of water over which you would pass.

4. Name the republics of Europe.

5. Locate the penitentiaries, asylums, reform schools and educational institutions in Iowa under State control.

6. Name all the railroads that traverse the State of Iowa from east to west, and the cities at both the eastern and western ends of each, in the State.

7. Trade winds. What are they, where are they, and how caused?

8. Where are the best anthracite coal fields in the United States? Where are the best lead deposits? Where are the best marble quarries?

9. Locate the great volcanic girdle of the world, and give the reason for the intense volcanic activity in the regions of the East and West Indies. 10. Name and locate the prominent mountain ranges of Europe.

GRAMMAR.

TIME, ONE HOUR.

1. Define Syntax, analysis, punctuation, diagram, modifier.

2. Write the possessive plural of the following words: Man, he, it, house, Charles.

3. Write a simple sentence containing not less than six different parts of speech.

4. Show by examples the difference between a complex and a compound sentence.

5. What is a dependent clause? Give three examples of dependent clauses. 6. Parse this, which, and to accomplish in the sentence: This is the work which I desire to accomplish.

7. Analyze or diagram the following sentence, and parse the words in italics: Photography is the art which enables common-place mediocrity to look like genius.

8. Correct in full the following expressions: "I haint had no dinner nor drunk no water for a week and haint saw a table sot as it had ought to be since we come here." "I was setting by the river when they telled me." "We broke up the setting hen and eat her eggs." "I knowed that it was so for I seen him when he done it." "These sort of expressions should be avoided." "A large number of seats were occupied by pupils that had no backs." "Try and recite the lesson perfectly." "Two men will be tried for crimes in this town which are punishable with death if a full court should attend."

9. Analyze or diagram the following:

"When thoughts

Of the last bitter hour come like a blight
Over thy spirit, and sad images

Of the stern agony and shroud and pall,

And breathless darkness and the narrow house,

Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart.-
Go forth under the open sky, and list

To nature's teaching."

10. In the above sentence, parse words: when, list, house.

BOOK-KEEPING.

TIME, ONE HOUR AND THIRTY MINUTES.

1. Define Single and Double entry.

2. What are representative accounts, and why are they so called? 2. Give rule for journalizing.

3. What is a Trial Balance, and for what is it intended?

4. Describe the manner of closing a Ledger.

5. Make a bill for the following goods and receipt it properly: Sold James McFarland 28 yards of prints at 163 cents; 85 lbs coffee sugar at 10 cents; 21 Ibs "A" sugar at 12 cents; 16 bs butter at 28 cents; gals. maple sirup at

90 cents.

6. Write a negotiable note due in nine months.

7. What are speculative accounts? What is shown by debtor and credit sides?

8. What is the province of the journal, and how may it be dispensed with? 9. 10. Commenced business with cash on hand, $6,000; Mdse., $4,000; bills receivable, $800; real estate, $426; bank stock, $800. I owe a note for $1,846.13; on account, $1,236,10.

At the close of the year I have cash, $5,000; Mdse., $3,462; bills receivable, $900; real estate, $400; bank stock, $800; due on account, $1,341.09. I owe on account, $134.18; on notes, $2,160. Make a balance account of opening and closing.

Ascertain whether there has been a gain or loss, and how much per cent.