2. Deduce a Rule for finding the L. C. M. of any given number and by it find the L. C. M. of the nine digits.

3. How many rails will enclose a field 23,023 feet long by 17,765 feet wide, the fence being straight and six rails high, the rails all of equal length and the longest that can be used?

4. Add,, and 18 and give the reason for each step.

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5. (a) Divide three thousand and ninety-six hundreds of thousandths by seventy-two millionths and explain the reasons for each step.

(b) How many yards of matting 2.4 feet broad will cover a floor that is 27.3 feet long and 20.16 feet broad?

3. Explain clearly and illustrate the difference between Simple and Compound Interest. Find at what rate Simple Interest in two years a sum of money would amount to the same sum as at 4 per cent. Compound Interest.

II.

NATURAL HISTORY.

Time, 1 hr.

1. Mention the more commonly occurring non-metallic minerals. Describe them briefly, and state how far they are capable of useful application.

2. From what sources do we derive our chief supply of the following substances: Iron, Chalk, Mineral Paint, Plaster, Sulphur, Lime, Salt, Phosphate, Gold?

3. "The plant exists ready-formed in the seed." Illustrate this statement.

4. What special features of Leaf, Flower, or Fruit characterize the following plants: Buttercup, Pea, Aster, Mint and Pine?

5. The Onion, the Potato and the Turnip are often spoken of as "root-crops." Are they all equally entitled to the designation of roots? Give reasons for your

answer.

6. Compare the appearance of a transverse section of Beech or Maple with that of Indian corn. What other features of difference, in leaf or flower, accompany

those of their stems?

7. How are plants nourished before and after appearing above ground?

8. Compare the following animals, as to general structure, viz.: Man, Monkey, Lion, Whale, Bat, Pidgeon, Frog, Beetle, Oyster and Star Fish, and deduce therefrom a scheme for their classification.

9. What functions do the Shell, Nerves, Brain, Tendons and Joints of animals respectively serve?

NOTE.-Five questions constitute a full paper.

INDUSTRIAL DRAWING.

(As in Grammar School and Class I.)

II.

ENGLISH COMPOSITION.

Time, 1 hr.

1. Define transposition. In transposing any passage from the metrical to the prose order, what rules should be observed? Transpose the following:

"The old man rose, and with a springly mien
Of hopeful preparation, grasped his staff;
Together casting then a farewell look

Upon those silent walls, we left the shade:
And, ere the stars were visible, had reached
A village inn,- --our evening resting place."

2. Mention some simple rules, which should regulate the language of which a sentence

is composed, as regards expression.

3. Construct a complex sentence from the following elements:

A. We shall find.

la'. We can only keep this in view (adv. of condition).

2a'. The English words are used in speaking a hundred times oftener than the Latin words (subs. obj. to find).

3a. There are more Latin words in our vocabulary than English (adv. of

concesssion).

â. We possess (attr. to words in 2a').

4. What is a paragraph? Name the three qualities which are essential to the construction of a good paragraph and briefly explain each.

5. Write a short historical paragraph on "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

2. Parse the words in italics in the passage selected for analysis.

3. State and illustrate the various ways in which changes of gender are indicated in English nouns.

4. Write three short sentences showing the use of the word "that as a conjunction, as a relative, and as a demonstrative respectively.

5. In the case of nouns derived from English nouns, what ideas are conveyed by the terminations en, ness, stead, ster? Give an example of each.

6. What prepositions should follow absolve, adapted, independent, need, dissent ? Frame short sentences to illustrate your answer.

II.

ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Time, 1 hr.

1. Give the titles of all the different selections you can remember, contained in Reader V., from the poetical works of each of the following authors: (a) Byron, (b) Tennyson, (c) Mrs. Hemans, (d) Campbell, (e) Goldsmith, (ƒ) Scott.

2. Write at least one stanza from each of any three of the selections you have named. 3. Write brief biographical notes concerning (a) Tennyson, (b) Dickens, (c) Longfellow, (d) Wordsworth.

4. State the poem from which each of the following is taken and write notes explanatory of the italicised words or phrases :

(a) Again the Day-star gilds the gloom.

(b) Let the portcullis fall.

(c) Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

(d) And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering" rose !

The War-note of Lochiel which Albyn's hills have heard.

(e) Can storied urn or animated bust

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?

5. Give an example from your reading of (a) Simile, (b) Metaphor, (c) Personification, (d) Antithesis, and show in each example what advantage to the clearness of meaning, or beauty and strength of style has been gained by the use of figurative language.

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

(As in Class I.

1. Name the books used in single entry book-keeping, and state the purpose for which each is used.

2. In which of the books ought you to find whether a person owes you or you owe him, and under what head?

3. On January 1st, 1885, sold to John Rye 7 bbls. flour @ $5.75, for which he paid on account $30. On January 10th, sold John Rye 20 lbs. tea @ 45 cts., 6 bbls. of apples @ $3.25, and 26 lbs. of sugar @ 9 cts., and received from him 2 tons of hay @ $12 and 6 bbls. of potatoes @ 75 cts. Show how to enter the above in proper form in a day-book, and in the ledger.

4. Give an example of an order for goods on H. Jones, Halifax.

II.

PHYSICS.

Time, 1 hr.

1. What is the specific gravity of distillad water? How do you know? If the volume of a pound of distilled water is 27.7274 cu. in., what is the volume of a pound of mercury? Show work.

2. Would it require more or less force to lift a piece of lead in a vacuum than in air? How much more or less? Show why.

3. Explain the directive power of the magnetic needle, i. e., why it points north and south.

4. Explain the attraction of a pith ball by a glass rod which has been rubbed with silk. Also explain the repulsion of the pith ball immediately after it has touched the glass.

5. Define or explain: Capillary attraction; force of gravity; elasticity; valve; barometer; malleability; cohesion; molecule. Give an example or an application

of each.

6. Explain the action of the common pump, and shew that there is a limit to the height to which water can be raised by it.

NOTE.-Five questions make a full paper.

I F., II. M.

GEOMETRY.

Time, 1 hr. 30 min.

1. If the side of an equilateral triangle is equal to unity find the length of the perpendicular from any vertex to the side opposite. In an isosceles right-angled triangle if each of the equal sides is equal to unity find the length of the hypotenuse.

2. Describe a parallelogram that shall be equal to a given triangle and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.

3. To a given straight line to apply a parallelogram which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.

4. In a right angled triangle what is the square of the side opposite the right angle equal to? In an obtuse angled triangle what is the square of the side opposite the obtuse angle equal to? In any triangle what is the square of a side opposite an acute angle equal to ?

5. If a straight line be bisected and produced to any point the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced and the part of it produced, together with the square on half the line bisected, is equal to the square on the straight line made up of the half and the part produced.

N. B.-Female candidates for class I. will omit the 3rd and 5th and work the following:

(a) Equal chords in a circle are equally distant from the centre and converse. (b) The opposite angles of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle are equal to two right angles. After proving this, state its converse.

I. F. and II. M.

ALGEBRA.

Time, 1 hr. 30 min.

1. Find the highest common factor of x3-x, 2x2-4x+2, x3+x2—2x.

1. Find the least common multiple of 5x+2x2-15x-6 and 7x3-4x2-21x.+12.