III. GEOGRAPHY.

1. Define latitude, longitude, zone, isthmus, cape, strait.

2. Name and locate the seven largest cities in the United States.

3. Name the States, Territories and chief cities through which one would pass in

4.

an all-rail trip from New York to San Francisco.

Can you go from Chicago to Vienna by water? How?

5. What is a continent? Name the continents in the order of their size.

6. Name, in the order of size, the ten largest States, and locate their capitals.

7. Name and locate, in the order of their importance, the five chief islands of the world.

8. Name the countries of Europe, in the order of size, beginning with the largest.

9. Name and locate the principal commercial cities of Asia-of Africa.

10. Describe the Nile, Rhine, La Plata.

IV. ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

1. Name and define the different parts of speech.

2. Give the principal parts of the following: rule-lie-think-sit-lay-set-write.

3. Give rules for writing the possessive singular and plural of nouns, and illustrate by examples.

4. Correct the following, giving reasons: "Let each esteem others better than themselves." "It is not me that he is angry with." "I fear we will have rain."

5. Give the uses of "what." Exemplify.

6. How determine whether a verb is transitive or intransitive?

7. Write a sentence containing the word "that," used as a conjunction.

8. What is the grammatical subject of a sentence?-the logical subject? Illustrate.

9. Define simple-compound-complex, as applied to sentences.

10. Use each of the following words as an adverb, then as a connective: yet-thenwhen.

V. ARITHMETIC.

1. Give the rules for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions.

3. Define the following words: Multiple-ratio-proportion.

4. What is the least common multiple of 12%, 8%, 64, 37, 5?

5. Express, decimally, the ratio of 3 to %.

6. What are decimal fractions? Express in words, .0060009.

7. At the rate of one per cent. per annum, what is the interest of one cent for six months?

8. What is the test of true proportion? If the first, third and fourth terms of a proportion are 5%, 7, 12%, respectively, what is the second term?

9. By proportion: If 18 pipes, each delivering 6 gallons per minute, fill a cistern in 2 h. 16 min., how many pipes, each delivering 20 gallons per min., will fill a cistern 71⁄2 times as large as the first, in 3 h. 24 minutes?

10. What is the rule for computing interest on endorsed notes?

VI. ALGEBRA.

1. Give the axioms on which all the operations in algebra are founded.

2. Define positive and negative quantities, and give the rule for the signs.

3. What is the theorem for the square of two quantities?-for the square of the difference?-for the product of the sum and difference?

4. How are exponential quantities multiplied?-how divided?

5. What is an equation? What determines the degree of an equation?

equation of the first degree;-of the second degree.

Write an

6. Give the three modes of elimination, in simple equations of two or more unknown quantities.

7. Give the binomial theorem. By it involve (x+y) to the fifth power.

8. Reduce (72a3y5) 1⁄2 to its simplest form. Reduce 2V3a to the form of the square root.

9. What is a pure quadratic equation?-an affected quadratic? of each.

Write an example

1. Define, point-line-surface-solid-geometrical figure-geometry-plane geometry. 2. What is an angle? How are angles measured? Name and describe the three kinds of angles.

3. Name and describe the four kinds of triangles. Name and describe the quadrilateral figures.

4. Define, convex polygon-concave polygon-re-entrant angle.

5.

6.

What is an axiom?-a theorem?—a problem?—a postulate?—a proposition?—a corollary?

Give the axioms on which the science of geometry is founded.

7. The angles which one straight line makes with another, upon one side of it, are either two right angles, or are together equal to two right angles. Draw diagram and demonstrate.

8. If one side of a triangle is produced, the exterior angle is equal to the sum of the two interior and remote angles; and the sum of the three interior angles of every triangle is equal to two right angles. Demonstrate.

9. Demonstrate that the square described upon the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares described upon the other two sides. 10. Demonstrate that an inscribed angle is measured by half the are included between its sides.

VIII. ELEMENTARY PHYSICS.

1. Give the law of gravity. Define vertical-weight. Why has a pound of oats as much weight as a pound of lead? Is a drop of mercury on a hard surface perfectly round? Give reason for answer.

2. Define specific gravity. Give the law about fluids of different specific gravity. When does a body float in water?-sink?-why?

3. Define cohesion. Which is stronger, rolled iron or cast iron? Why? Define tenacious-hard.

4. Define adhesion. What is the effect of immersing the hand in water? in mercury? Why? Define capillary attraction.

5. Define elasticity-brittle-malleable-ductile. Give example of each. Give the principle of the diving-bell.

6. Describe the barometer, giving its construction, the principles involved, and its uses. If a barometer be taken to the top of a mountain, will the mercury rise or fall? Why?

7. What is an inclined plane? Give three examples. How should roads up steep mountains be constructed? Why? Define the lever. How find the amount of power needed to lift a given load? To which class of levers does the oar belong? Why?

8. Compare the action of the bellows with the action of breathing. Explain the act of drinking, of smoking. Could we breathe in a vacuum? Explain. What is the principle of the cominon pump?

9. What is sound? Its cause? Give velocity of sound. Why do some bodies give a louder sound than others? Why is it so quiet on the mountains?

10. Define evaporation-when does it take place? What changes does it effect? What is rain?-snow?-hail?-dew?-fog?-cloud?

QUARTERLY MEETING, SPRINGFIELD, JULY, 1884.

THE regular quarterly meeting of the ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH was held in its rooms in the Capitol building at Springfield on Wednesday, July 2, 1884.

Present, at the afternoon session, Drs. Haskell, Mackenzie, Kreider and Rauch; Dr. Haskell presiding in the absence of the President; and, at the evening session, in addition to the above, Newton Bateman, the President, in the chair.

The minutes of the last quarterly meeting, April 17 and 18, were read and approved; after which the regular order of business was suspended, and the BOARD went into executive session on certain cases of colleges and practitioners under the Medical Practice Act. At the evening session, the following quarterly report of the Secretary was presented:

QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, APRIL 1-JUNE 30, 1884.

During the quarter ended June 30, 1884, there were received in the Secretary's office 604 communications, letters, papers, etc., exclusive of 107 diplomas submitted for verification, and the affidavits and other papers accompanying applications for certificates in 226 cases. There were sent out, during the same period, 827 letters, postals, circulars, etc., and other communications, and the usual quantity of the BOARD's publications-Reports, Registers, PreventableDisease Circulars, Epidemic Disease Blanks, Forms of Ordinances, etc. Two hundred and forty-two packages were received, and 212 sent out, by express. Seventy-three telegrams received, and 102 sent.

Certificates and Licenses:

Certificates entitling to practice medicine and surgery, under the Medical-Practice Act, were issued to 170 graduates upon diplomas of colleges which have complied with the requirements of the BOARD, entitling them to be classed as in good standing, and to 4 upon length of practice in the State.

Under the authority conferred upon the Secretary at the last meeting, seventeen applicants for certificates, holding diplomas of colleges which had not fully complied with the BOARD'S requirements, have been notified that they would have to submit to examinations on the branches or subjects omitted by their respective schools. In nine of these cases, the applicants have already been examined and certificates issued; five of these were examined in

hygiene only; three in hygiene and general education; and one on all the branches, including general education. Three declined to appear to be examined, and the remaining five are now awaiting examination.

Examinations of five midwives have been made, and certificates issued to three of these who passed successfully; and seven to others upon diplomas and licenses, or other recognized credentials. The Medical-Practice Act:

Since the last meeting of the BOARD, the Dr. C. Buell Rice, to whom a certificate was refused at the special meeting of January 30, has been tried and convicted of practicing in violation of the Medical Practice Act. The case was tried in the Sangamon County Court, May 19, before His Honor, Judge Matheny.

The defense set up the plea that, being a graduate of a "legally chartered medical institution in good standing," the defendant was entitled to a certificate; and that it was not competent for the BOARD to inquire into the moral or professional character of such graduates.

On the part of the prosecution it was shown that charges had been presented to the BOARD, alleging that Rice was in the employ of, and associated with the "K. and K. Surgeons," a firm of advertising quacks from Cincinnati and elsewhere, and that, in various ways connected therewith, as recited at the special meeting January 30, his conduct was unprofessional and dishonorable, within the meaning and intent of the Medical-Practice Act; that upon these charges the BOARD had refused to issue Rice a certificate until he had disproved the same; that instead of making any attempt at such disproof, Rice continued to practice; whereupon he was arrested for practicing without the necessary certificate.

The facts were admitted by the defense, but, as already stated, the Court was asked to dismiss the suit on the ground that it was obligatory on the BOARD to issue its certificate to the possessor of a genuine diploma of any "legally chartered medical institution in good standing," regardless of the moral or professional status of the individual. This the Court declined to do, but found the defendant guilty, and assessed a penalty of $50 and costs. Notice of appeal was at once given by the attorneys for the defense, but this was subsequently abandoned, the fine and costs were paid, and this last representative of the "K. and K. Surgeons" has left the State.

WHILE this decision again affirms the right and duty of the STATE BOARD OF HEALTH to inquire into and determine the status of individual practitioners, a decision by the Supreme Court of the State, rendered May 19, ult., sustains the right of boards constituted as is the STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, to determine the status of a college. Under the act to regulate the practice of dentistry in Illinois, the Supreme Court refused the petition of a dentist, one Isaac N. Sheppard, for a writ of mandamus to compel the State Board of Dental Examiners to issue him a certificate or license based upon a diploma of the Indiana Dental College. The Board refused the license on the ground that the college was not a