Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1882 — Civil Service Examination. [ARTICLE]

Civil Service Examination.

New York\^orid. “Will you name a fossil of the Silu[rian age?” f “Tripod.” “Mr. M., will you name some of the plants common in the carboniferous age?” _ “The Lepidodendrids, the Sigillarie aud the ca-ca-Camelites.” “Mr. 8., what can you say of the size of the bract?”---“It is„so small that it can not be absent ” “What is the congealed form of water?” “A sponge.” “What is a protozoa?” “One large cell.” “Give an example?” “Bob Ingersoll.” “What is a monsoon?” “A tribe of Indians in Central Africa.” ‘•What is a broken line?” “It is a crooked straight line.” 1 1 “ What is an equilateral triangle?” 1 “A triangle with four sides.” “What Fnglish word is derived from verbreit?”^ “Very broad.” “What kind of a subjunction is that?” “That is what a former professor would call subjunctive of softened statement.” “Aud what is that?” “I give it un.” “Whit did Wickliffe write?” “I believe he wrote a Bible.” “Who was the great hunter of Bible times?’! “Nabob.” “Who were the three men in the fiery furnace?” “Shadrach, Mesech and Beelzebub.”