Show BROUGHT TO LIFE BY LIGHT poppy seeds twenty centuries old sprang into brilliant bloom when uncovered some yeara ago there was seen in a silver mine of laurium laudium a curious instance of the resuscitating power of oc light arter after many years the silver mines of ct laurium laudium were abandoned more than 2000 years ago as unworkable and were filled tor for the most part with the slag from tho the workings ol of tho the miners it wait was discovered however that this slag contained plenty of silver which could easily be rendered available by up to date appliances accordingly it was removed to the furnace and when next the mine was visited a wonderful transformation was found to have taken place instead of a heap of r rubbish ab the mine had become a gorgeous lower garden the entire space was wa covered with a brilliant show of pop plea pies this profuse vegetable life it la Is asserted belonged to the age in which the mines were worked twenty centuries old therefore were those poppy seeds yet when the removal of 0 the slag allowed the light to tall upon them they sprang into lito life and bloom under its influence |