The store is having a sale on furniture and household items.

【item】这家商减价出售家俱和家居用品。

They were offered by packages, at first of five, then of ten, until at last nobody would take less than twenty, fifty, a hundred!

人们都大量抛出。最初按票面价之一减价出售，后来减为十之一，甚至减为二十之一，十之一，最后竟减为百之一了。