3. What is the difference between venous and arterial blood? How and where does the one become the other? What agencies determine (1) the fact, and (2) the direction of the blood's flow?

4. Describe the structure and action of the human eye.

5. How would you show experimentally what gases are more abundant in the breath exhaled than in the air inhaled? How does the use of alcohol affect the amount

of these gases given off from the lungs, and with what result?

6. Describe the principal organ of the circulation, and state the effects of alcoholic drinks upon its action.

NOTE.-Five questions, including the last two, make a full paper.

I. II.

CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

Time, 1 hr. 30 min.

PART I.

1. Explain (1) the physical and (2) the chemical constitution of the air. What consequences flow from each? How may the chemical constitution be shown? What results would follow any material alteration in the proportion of its elements. 2. What is formed when Hydrogen burns? Proof? (2) When Carbon burns? Proof? (3) When electric sparks are passed through air? (4) When the breath is blown through Lime-water? (5) When organic matter decays?

3. State what you know of the chemical constitution of Bread, Fat, Milk, Butter, Eggs. 4. "The animal manufactures flesh out of grass." Explain this statement, describing briefly the successive steps of the process.

5. How may Chlorine be prepared? For what is it used? What are its most familiar compounds?

6. What products result from the fermentation of Sugar? By what properties may each be known? What is the effect of each upon the human system?

PART 11.

7. Give symbols for the following, three of them in the graphic form: (1) Ammonium Hydrate. (2) Sulphuric Acid. (3) Sodium Chloride, Ozone, Plaster of Paris, Potassium Chlorate, Carbon-dioxide, Copperas. What contrasts of properties are exhibited between 1, 2 and 3?

8. Describe the preparation of any three of the following gases, giving the reactions of symbols: Chlorine, Hydrochloric Acid, Hydrogen, Ammonia, Carbon monoxide.

9. Describe, and account for, the several effects produced in the following cases: Slacking of Lime, action of Sodium on water, action of Yeast in bread-making, explo sion of Gunpowder.

10. Formulate the following reactions: Hydrochloric acid on Chalk, Carbon dioxide, on Lime-water, Slacked Lime on Ammonium chloride, Sulphuric acid on Calcium Phosphate, Nitric acid on Potassium Hydrate.

11. Describe the preparotion of Oxygen. What several conclusions could you draw from the observed facts and conditions of the experiment? How would you illustrate to a class the properties of O, giving symbols for any new bodies formed?

NOTE.-Six questions, selected at will, constitute a full paper.

I.

BOOKKEEPING.

Time, 1 hr.

1. Explain the meaning of the words "To" and "By," as used in journalizing. Would you use them in books of your own business, or not? Give reasons.

2. Distinguish between real and fictitious accounts.

3. How would you proceed to change a set of books from Single Entry to Double Entry.

4. What is the object of taking stock; and what accounts are affected by inventory

entries?

5. How do you close the merchandise account?

6. Give the ordinary form of Ledger Account, showing how you would post the following:

June 2. Lent John Brown $200, on his note payable in 30 days.

July 2. John Brown paid interest on the above, at 6 per cent., and renewed his

note.

7. Post or journalize the following transactions:

I.

(a) Invested in live stock, $800.

(b) Paid wages, $65.

(c) Fire destroyed trees on wood lot which we had valued at $300.

(d) Exchanged for standard bred stock a meadow valued at $250.

Any five of the above, including one of the last two questions, will be taken as a full paper.

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSICS.

Time, 1 hr.

1. Forces of 8 and 12 lbs. act at an angle of 60°, find the magnitude of their resultant. 2. A bar of uniform thickness weighs 10 lbs. and is 5 feet long; weights of 9 lbs. and 5 lbs. are suspended from its extremities, how far from the centre of the bar is the balancing point?

3. Define the moment of a force with respect to a point. What is the physical notion involved in the idea of a moment? What are the chief properties of moments? 4. A weight of 17 lbs. just balances a weight of 79 lbs. on a wheel and axle. What will be the radius of the axle, if that of the wheel be 17 inches?

5. Explain the meaning of the symbols in the equation s = Vt± 1 ft2

6. The acceleration is 8 ft. per second and the initial velocity is 11 ft. per second, find the space passed over in 8 seconds, and the velocity at the end of that time.

7. How would you explain to a pupil the terms uniform velocity and uniformly accelerated velocity?

8. Explain the action of the common pump.

I. M.

GEOMETRY.

Time, 1 hr. 30 min.

1 or 2 and all the rest make a full paper.

1. (a) If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other, and the sides about a second angle in each equal; then if the third angle in each be both acute, both obtuse, or if one of them be a right angle, the triangles are equal in all respects. (Prove the case of the acute angle only.)

(b) State four other conditions involving equality in triangles.

2. (a) In a triangle state the relation between the sum of the squares on the sides containing an angle, and the square on the third side, whether that angle be right, obtuse, or acute.

(b) Prove the case in which the angle is obtuse.

3. (a) If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a straight line be drawn cutting the circle, the angles made by this line with the line touching the circle must be equal to the angles which are in the alternate segments of the circle.

(b) By (a) divide a circle into two segments such that the angle in one of them shall be five times the angle in the other.

4. Inscribe a regular hexagon in a given circle.

5. In a right-angled triangle, if a perpendicular be drawn from the right angle to the base, the triangles on each side of it are similar to the whole triangle and to one another.

6. Cut a given straight line in extreme and mean ratio.

3. Solve the typical equation in quadratics: ax2+bx+c=0, explaining each step of operation; and using the formula thus obtained, solve the following equation:

6. Deduce the formula for finding the sum of a geometrical series; and using the formula thus obtained find the sum of the following series: 21+61+158+ ..... to 5 terms.

7. A boat's crew can row 8 miles an hour in still water. What is the speed of a river's current, if it take them 2 hours and 40 minutes to row 8 miles up and 8 miles down?

8. Two workmen, A and B, were employed by the day at different rates; A at the end of a certain number of days received £4. 16s., but B, who was absent six of those days, received only £2 14s. If B had worked the whole time, and A had been absent six days, they would have received exactly alike.

of days and what each was, paid per day?

5 or 6 and all the others will make a full paper.

Find the number

1. Being given the radius how would you find (a) the circumference of the circle, (b) the area of the circle, (c) the surface of the sphere, (d) the volume of the sphere?

2. If tan. A = find the values of the other functions.

3. Given two sides and the included angle of a triangle. Explain how the other parts are to be found.

4. Prove the formula which expresses the area of a triangle in terms of two sides and the included angle.

5. One of the equal angles of an isosceles triangle is 75° and the side opposite is 20 feet, find the area.

6. In taking the dimensions of a trapezium I found the first perpendicular to rise at 539, and to measure 725 links; the second at 1890, and to measure 832 links; the whole diagonal measured 2456 links; required the area of the trapezium in acres, roods, and perches.

II.

CLASS 11.

SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Time, 45 min.

1. What are the characteristic features of the New Brunswick school system?

2. Give a summary of the mode of support of the schools, with a detailed account of the apportionment of the county school fund.

3. What provisions are made in the law in aid of poor districts? How are these districts designated as such, and how often?

4. How is the school accommodation regulated?

5. State clearly the provisions in regard to a teacher's contract. When may it be made for a term only? When for a year or a term? What are the provisions for a legal notice to terminate the contract? Failing notice, what is the difference between a contract made on Jan. 1st and one made on July 1st?

6. After money has been voted at a school meeting, what are the several steps necessary to be taken to collect and place it in the hands of the secretary of board of trustees? When a district refuses to vote money, how may the necessary funds be provided?

II.

TEACHING AND SCHOOL MANAGEMENT.

Time, 2 hrs.

1. What are the difficulties of teaching a school with four or more classes, and how may these difficulties be partially overcome?

2. What must a teacher consider in determining (a) the time scale of subjects in a time table, and (b) the proper sequence of subjects?

3. Write out a time table for a miscellaneous ungraded school of four classes (standards I.-IV.) and show a specimen working programme for any two consecutive periods of it.

4. What are the objects of school discipline with respect to (a) the pupil himself, (b) the pupil as a member of the school.

5. What is the bearing of rewards and punishments on the conduct of the pupils! Name three rewards and three punishments commonly used, and state the action for which each is appropriate.

6. Outline a lesson on one of the following subjects (selecting the topic yourself): Reading to St. II., Nat. Science to St. IV., Grammar to St. III., Number to St. I., Color to St. II., a health lesson or a Physical Exercise to the school. 7. Give an outline of a course of oral lessons on language, geography or number. 8. How do you propose to secure interest in such subjects as History, Grammar Arithmetic, or Natural Science (select one).

9. What personal qualities should a teacher possess.