Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1898 — Auction Sales in Japan. [ARTICLE]

Auction Sales in Japan.

Japanese auctions are conducted on a plan which gives rise to none of the noise and confusion which attend such sales in the United States. Each bidder writes his name and bid upon a slip of paper, which he places In a box. When the bidding is over the box is opened by the auctioneer and the goods declared the property of the highest bidder. Spain produced the Cid, Christopher Columbus and notable travelers, and during mediaeval times in art, science and learning it bad first rank. Before the Visigoths overran the country was its time of glory—after that its decline set in. *• - r -i.' -.... ... •