_Question 2._ Write below at length the names of fifteen States and fifteen cities of the Union. _Question 3. Copy the following precisely_: "And in my opinion, sir, this principle of claiming monopoly of office by the right of conquest, unless the public shall effectually rebuke and restrain it, will effectually change the character of our Government. It elevates party above country; it forgets the common weal in the pursuit of personal emolument; it tends to form, it does form, we see that it has formed, a political combination, united by no common principles or opinions among its members, either upon the powers of the Government or the true policy of the country, but held together simply as an association, under the charm of a popular head, seeking to maintain possession of the Government by a vigorous exercise of its patronage, and for this purpose agitating and alarming and distressing social life by the exercise of a tyrannical party proscription. Sir, if this course of things cannot be checked, good men will grow tired of the exercise of political privileges. They will see that such elections are but a mere selfish contest for office, and they will abandon the Government to the scramble of the bold, the daring, and the desperate."--_Daniel Webster on Civil Service, in 1832_. _Question 4._ Correct any errors in spelling which you find in the following sentences, writing your letters so plainly that no one of them can be mistaken: Unquestionebly every federil offeser should be able to spell corectly the familier words of his own languege. Lose her hankercheif and elivate her head immediatly or she will spedily loose her life by strangelation. SECOND SUBJECT. _Question 1._ Multiply 2341705 by 23870 and divide the product by 6789. _Give operation in full._ _Question 2._ Divide two hundred and five thousand two hundred and five, and two hundred and five ten-thousandths, by one hundred thousand one hundred, and one hundredth. _Question 3._ Multiply 10-2/3 by 7-1/8 and divide the product by 9-1/2, reducing the same to the simplest form. _Give operation in full._ _Question 4._ The annual cost of the public schools of a city is $36,848. What school-tax must be assessed, the cost of collecting being 2 per cent., and 6 per cent of the assessed tax being uncollectible? _Give operation in full._ _Question 5._ Add 7-3/4, 3/5 of 6-2/9, 8-11/12, 6-1/2 divided by 8-1/8, and reduce to lowest terms. _Give operation in full._ _Question 6._ The Government sold 3000 old muskets at 22-1/2 per cent, of their cost. The purchaser becoming insolvent paid only 13 per cent. of the price he agreed to pay; that is, he paid $900. What did each musket cost the Government? _Give operation in full._ _Question 7._ What will it cost to carpet a room 36 feet wide by 72 feet long with 3/4 width carpet at $2.12 per yard, including cost of carpet-lining at 11 cents a square yard and 12 cents a yard for making and laying the carpet?