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11 For study in science today we have Pyrite, which 

 means fire-stone. One of our specimens is massive, 

 and the other is in small crystals. Each crystal is a 

 perfect cube. A cube has six equal sides, eight cor- 

 ners and twelve edges. Pyrite is harder and heavier 

 than any other mineral that we have studied. When 

 broken it has a rough surface and a bright yellow 

 color. When I turn it in the light it glitters like 

 gold, but there is no gold in it at all, for it is 47 per 

 cent, iron, and 53 per cent, sulphur. One of our 

 problems to-day was to find the amount of iron and 

 sulphur in a pound of pyrite. We all found it to be 

 3290 grains of iron and 3710 grains of sulphur. For 

 the proof we add these, and it makes a pound or 7000 

 grains. 



" Our pyrite came from Ceylon. It is also found 

 on the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, Corsica, 

 Candia, Ceram, Gilolo, Borneo, Java, Sumatra and 

 New Guinea." Anna. 



Plants. 



''The Iris versicolor, or common blue flag, is a 

 very beautiful plant. 



" It grows from two feet to three feet high, but it is 

 never found growing on dry land. It grows best in 

 very damp ground where the soil is rich and dark 

 colored. 



