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Show An Auction in Japan. A San Francisco man last night was telling of various customs of the Japanese Jap-anese which had come under hi3 observation. "Ono of their peculiarities Is shown In their method of conducting an auction. They have auctions In Japan just as wo do In America, but they go at It In a little different style. "The auctioneer exhibits tho article which he proposes to sell and asks for bids upon It He does not exhort or cajole, ca-jole, and there Is no excited clamoring of bidders. Lawyer Marks would bo impossible im-possible In Japan, for each man who desires de-sires to make a bid draws from his pocket a slip of paper, writes upon it tho high- ! est figure ho will pay and deposits hi.- fl slip in a box. Aflor tho bids are all In ' ; the auctioneer opens the box, glances at I tbe bids and promptly awards the artlclw ll ot tho man who has offered tho greatest 'I sum."-Louisville Courier-Journal. W |