Show auctions startle the world london feu 20 in london day over furs changed fiands at auction in seven hours hill the ealo took place in the all mart adjoining southward South wark bridge of europe were represented furriers leading the the akins of brae as were animal in the every fur bearing world exceedingly many ot were wro of pounds thousands lind valuable few accounts every added to little excitement was very there minutes yet cit ement unwritten law at the great periodical it is an feather that aro and bales of fur held in london at regular intervals the for form who of course the dealers to refrain from bulk of the purchasers being the reason gesticulating shouting or bid and drown a that any noise may are operations conducted thereby so quickly and on eo large a scale cause hundreds perhaps thousands of a loss of to jhb vendors pounds sales at the periodical during the great wool exchange however for some unexplained reason exactly the conc enids bood each of these mam moth auctions lasts three or four and while they arc on the exchange is a yet pandemonium there is no laudation of the wool no appeal for bids no opportunity for the auctioneer to be cither smart of jocose lie merely calls out the number of and this ia the catalogue the lot irom answering shout from a followed by an bidder of ten or twelve or any number up to twenty or thereabouts then babel begins everybody leaps feet points toward the at once to his auctioneer and goes on over and over again furiously shouting one of id this means that an advance pound bad been made on tho lodor per la or whatever the opening bid may have been and it continues until somebody belts out half meaning a halfpenny this of course indicates yet another V advance and the chorus is thereupon immediately changed everyone going on shouting half halt without stopping the sound almost exactly resembling the baying of a of hounds in full cry i meanwhile the auctioneer is the only duiet man in the place everyone of the others present ia howling at him extending their right hands threateningly in his direction waving their under his nose presently he points with pen to one of the shouters and instantly silence reigns only broken again when next lot is offered the foothill fonthill Fon thill abbey sale is valued tradition yet with every knight of alie hammer although the auction took place anoro than eighty years ago tha mansion and estate belonged to william backford the author of Va a gorgeous oriental tale hav ine for its hero a sort of arabian monte christo but this individual was jn reality beckford himself and Ion thiU was the gladdins Alad dins palace of his dreams materialized zed he was a man of vast wealth and lie built and furnished regardless of ex to start with lie had a wall seven long and twelve feet high built right the in alie ce of ano circle of which it was the circumference ho caused building to be erected which so far aa outward went was something between the crystal palace and the spanish alhambra it occupied five years in building and thrice that period in the furnishing then the owner grew tired of his immense costly plaything and gave orders sold the auctioneer who was entrusted with the sale a man named george was a bit of a celebrity in his way and a shrewd fellow withal taking advantage of the curiosity which the and eccentricity of his patron had created in regard to his beautiful palace admission was denied to all who were not purchasers of a catalogue such was the fame of the unparalleled collection however that more than of these were sold multitudes rushed from all parts of the kingdom to wonder through the ff rounds and visit the galleries of tho ab bey accommodation could not be secured tents were pitched in tho park carta and barrels and boxes were used by the gentry for bleed bleep ing places the eale lasted thirty three days tho abbey fetched a third more than icca value ll glowing de and mysterious hints had set all britain crazy pictures sold at what were then considered and in no doubt cases were ultra extravagant bricea st catherine now in the national gallery brought the entire treasures of the abbey books ar tides of virtu furniture and works of art realized more than something of the same interest was excited by the salo of the duke of buck ginghams ing hams property at stoic in 1851 and again by the famous hamilton palace sale of slay 1889 when the vast collection of pictures and other works of art ca and crystals brought together during more than four centuries of e generations of Dou glasses wag chocked down lot by lot to the highest bidder buyers extended from all over the world and the prices realized were almost incredible sa single small writing table it had formerly been tho of tho ill fated maria an toinette fetched ten thousand giu neat the representative of the german gov bought worth of manu cripes crip ts altogether there was received v auctioneer on behalf of the vendor Mft some fifty years ago again on the h tc of a famous cardinal at home M antiquities was of rid wide celebrity the B alo was oni luneed months before it took itce of compass catalo guta were circulated throughout ath and a the prescribed period approached from very city ia europe from tho india and south america poured into home they remained until the gale wag over the of alio cabin creek mine history batea to about tho year 1845 was moat extraordinary one day three men named kit car on jaroma kinney and ft half bred caroo into fort randalyn tho river with a of nuggets tad a story of old deposits of in credi alb richness rich nesa on cabin creek a brancho he north fork of the cheyenne river just wast of what is now the fontana ron tana boundary line both the prospectors acro alil pioneers and carson enjoyed a great reputation uta tion as a guide which lent some additional dit ional color to the story went mad with the lust of cold and when the two discoverers an their intention of belling by auction one thousandth shares in their find buyers flocked in from all directions of the compass timo there were no white men within milea of the place oliero this boint stock el dorado was supposed to be situated and the bioux indians were known to be bitterly hostile nevertheless the whole of alie shares were bought up mostly in single lots then the vendors having secured the cash went on the spree the blackfoot killed himself in a fit of drunken frenzy kinney was shot over a game of cards carson disappeared one evening and was never heard of again the disappointment among tho pur chasers of shares was of course very keen some hundreds of them started out to try and locate tho place themselves but none ever returned |