NATIONAL EDUCATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2038, 30 July 1885, Page 2

NATIONAL EDUCATION.

The following aro selected from tho answers given at a recent scholarship examination m London :—: — 1. Ey what tight does tho Queen sit on tho throno?—(a) Because Princo Albeit m.iri ied her, and she was the daughter of the late king and granddaughter of Kollo, the *ea-king (b) Sho was tho only daughter of Edward VI, who was her father, son of Edward Y. (c) Sho won a great battle. 2. Explain tho moaning of the Executive, Manhood Suffrage, and Protective Duties. —Tho Executive was a man who wan appointed to the duty of hanging a person, or otherwiso executing him. Manhood suffrage in tho it.ite of suffering to which all mankind aro born. Tho protective duty was the duty of a man tn protect another peaion from receiving harm of any kind. 3. Cromwell wan the brother of Lord Wolsoley. Piince Rupoit was a celebrated experimental chcmNt. Sir Thomas Wyatt was the man who hoi pod to intent locomotive engines. Washington invented steam engines; h« was a gioat philosopher. Warren Hastings was ,t Viking; he landed in England and ti u>d to take it, but was defeated. Loid NoNon was a bia\o man who fought in the battle of Watetloo. Washington fought with Nelson in the battle of Waterloo, and took his place when he was killed. Nelson's List words wen*: "Do not throw me owibo.ud unless the king wishes to." Lord Palmerston lived in the reign of William 1., and was the chief of the feudal .system. 4. An alderman is (a) a man who keejw turtles ; (b) a man who cuts down alders ; (c) a man who feeds on the people. (X.U. —The above is a Radical answer.) A Conservative is a man who looks down on Liberals ; a Libcial is a man who spends the people's money fieely. Mr Gladstone in a Liberal and head of tho House of Commons ; Lord Ueaconsfield a Conservative and head of the House ol Lord*. An antiquary is an enemy of fishes (Latin anti, against, and aqua, water). fi. Explain " All the world's a stage "—" — The world is a fl.it surface like a stage for people to walk upon. The seasons are I caused by the sun going round tho moon. !

Ax editor, who thinks tho wages demanded by hia compositois an imposition, has recently discharged his hands, and intends doing his own type setting in the future. He says : "oWinG to tiiK eXonbi.i.aNt wygKs dEwaNdjd try rJliiTeicj, wk hyvo oOnqudeD :jo no ofl.i oWii TYpe sjpTinG k The FuTti>[e! ,mD alTHonSu \\ r9r 9 noVor leArNeg tj^e Buajiriss, mX dO nOt Soe y uY gßowt mAsTory iN thE aIU." KoMAßori'\ Rkwuids. — The Czar is doing his best to keep his army, and particularly his officers, in pood humour. Never before, says the Vienna correspondent of the Dailv News, has a Russian General been so favoured as General Komaroff. He was promised, it appears, 3000 roubles a year for ten years. That was handsome ; but the prudent General can interpret an Imperial promise to hia own advantage almost as well as a "sacred covenant," and accordingly suggested that he should like the money down in a lump. The Czar smiled at his servant's application to his own affairs of the principles he had learned in the service of his country, and complacently sent Komaroff double the capital sum demanded. A like grant of 100,000 roubles has been added by Imperial order to the year's budget to assist regimental clubi, and a decree has been conferred on all officers of both services the privilege of travelling on all the railways on their private business at very reduced rates. Much of the stock of these lines i-* held by Englishmen and other foreigners, so that this last piece of Imperial munificence is to a great extent vicarious. Bbwark •fpackafjrs of injurious stuff purportin? to make Kcnumo Hop Hitters j also preparations and fluid* said to contain all the properties of American Hop Hitter*. Ihey spring up, on account of tho Rreat popularity of the genuine, which i* onlr put up in lar^c square-panel ambercoloured bottles, witb the name " DrSoule " and "Hod Bitters" blown m the glass, and is the bust family mtdicinc ever made. Read