The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-23

subjects Of study. In an auction at Spain, for
instance everything accords with the national
temper. There is no noise. Conversation is
prohibited. The auctioneer is held to his de-
scription OF goods A bid is made: he Of the
hammer repeats it; silence follows; another
bid, mother announcement OF it, and another
silence all as serious and solemn as a prayer
meeting, until the mallet falls.
An auction room in France is, on the con-
trary, a pertect Babel. In all noisy Paris
there is nothing so noisy and boisterous as
St Antoine vender where gan.ins and chiffon
nie,,s and cold clo'" Jews contend for cheap
bar aims. There can be 10 greater contrast
to this hubbub than that which is presented
BY the dull dec rum of III auction sale in
Amsterdam or Rotterdam. There Mynheer
auctionee r sits behind tab smoking his
pipe. He states term Of sale, waits for a bid,
makes no haste, creates no excitement, watch
es no countenances, takes no mods or winks.
Before him stands a box filled with tapers. If
there is too long delay, he lights one OF these
in silence, and thrusts in on a spindle fixed in
the table. When it goes out the last bidder
takes the article.
There is curious old custom at Billings
gate-the great and well-known fish market
in London of selling fish from the boats a.
they arrive every morning, by an auction ''of
reduction as it is called. Every boat load is
sold altogether Twenty five or thirty sales
are going on at once. The production" auc-
ton always occurs in the early morning, some
times before light. Men and women indis-
criminately act as auctioneers and buyers, also
men and women walk up and down the docks
scrutinizing the cargoes. A bell rings and the
sales commence. In a large, fiat 2ondola are
bloaters, owned by the strapping tish-woman,
who now begin to brawl to the buyers on
H., L.. 7 lInr
bloaters, fine, large Yarmouth bloaters ; five
shillings cattle Five shillings! Well,
four and tenpence be it then -Four and ten
Four and ten . -Four and nine, then -Four
and glt.
''Ill take EN-, old woman, ut four and
eight" cries buyer from the landing place
and forthwith the boat load is his. And so it
goes for an hour, amid chatting and scolding
screaming and swearing; "Mackrell, alli-
bout SOLE salmon, cod addock,' shouted a
hundred times all together; the boats un-
loaded; porters struggling, boys and girls
counting the s.hEnders by themselves:
tishmongers from the West End selecting; er-
rand boys running: fish women fouting each
other, and everybody blowing up everybody
else, until the great bell rings, which ends
the auction hour and opens the morning mar
ket.
The RING FINGER says in hi.
Treatise of Spousals:" 'The finger
which the wedding ring is to be worn is the
fourth finger of the left hand, next to the lit
tie finger; because by the received opinion of
the learned and experienced in ripping up and
anatomizing men bodies there is vein of
blood, which passeth from the fourth finger
into the heart, called Cena dDoris doves
vein): and so the wearing of the ring on that
finger signifeth that the love should not be
vain or teigned, but that as they did give
hands each to the other 50 likewise they should
give hearts also whereunto that vein extend
ed" Commenting upon this the Canadian
Monthly remarks ''This idea seems to have
arisen in Egypt as early as the second century.
Aprian an Alexandran historian, says that,
in the opinion OF the ANTAGONISTS Of Egypt, "a
certain most delicate nerve passed from the
ring finger to the heart. But the staunchest
upholder Of this theory was Lrvinus Lemni-
US, celebrated sage Of Zealand. who lived in
the sixteenth century.
I'm his medical practice he had often taken
advantage Of this connecting artery to restore
iainting women to consciousness. The small
artery stretched forth from the heart unto his
finger the motion whereof you may perceive
evidently in all that affects the heart in wo-
men by the touch Of your foretinger. | used
to raise such as are fallen into a swoon by
plnchlng this JOINT. and by rubbing the rluS OF
gold with little saffron, for by this re
storing force that is in it passeth to the heart,
and retresheth the fountain OF life unto which
this finger is joined. Wherefore antiquity |
thought tit to compass 1t about with gold
He also states that this finger was termed
medicus since, if any venom enter it, notice !
was given to The heart before 1t was too late to
use an antidote. The govt also never afflicted
this finger until the attack had assumed a /
fatal character This he had observed in Gal
ia Belgica, the land par excellence of podagral
no Belgian, however long his eNpe-
renee of govt may have been, ever suffering
IN his finger till death was nigh at hand.
The sandy lands i'll West Alabama, so the
AdueFiser reports, are suffering
lrouth. In many places the cotton has been
Is badly injured as it could have been by the
As yet the black lands have not
suffered materially. There are but few cater
pillars anywhere, but the boll-worm is doing
considerable damage The cotton crop is