Index:The humbugs of the world - An account of humbugs, delusions, impositions, quackeries, deceits and deceivers generally, in all ages (IA humbugsworld00barnrich).djvu

Title	The Humbugs of the World (1866)
Author	Phineas Taylor Barnum
Year	1866
Publisher	Carleton
Location	New York
Source	djvu
Progress	To be proofread
Transclusion	Fully transcluded
OCLC	48047118

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CONTENTS.

 

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Chapters (not listed in original)

• Publisher’s Note
• Introduction

I. Personal Reminiscences.
Chapter I.—General View of the Subject.—Humbug Universal.—In Religion.—In Politics.—In Business.—In Science.—In Medicine.—How Is It to Cease.—The Greatest Humbug of All.		11
Chapter II.—Definition of the Word Humbug.—Warren of London.—Genin, the Hatter.—Gosling’s Blacking.		18
Chapter III.—Monsieur Mangin, the French Humbug.		29
Chapter IV.—Old Grizzly Adams.		37
Chapter V.—The Golden Pigeons.—Grizzly Adams.—German Chemist.—Happy Family.—French Naturalist.		46
Chapter VI.—The Whale, The Angel Fish, and The Golden Pigeon.		53
Chapter VII.—Pease’s Horehound Candy.—The Door Rebellion.—The Philadelphia Aldermen.		57
Chapter VIII.—Brandreth’s Pills.—Magnificent Advertising.—Power of Imagination.		65
II. The Spiritualists.
Chapter IX.—The Davenport Brothers, Their Rise And Progress.—Spiritual Rope-Tying.—Music Playing.—Cabinet Secrets.—“They Choose Darkness Rather Than Light,” Etc.—The Spiritual Hand.—How the Thing Is Done.—Dr. W. F. Van Vleck.		73
Chapter X.—The Spirit-Rapping and Medium Humbugs.—Their Origin.—How The Thing Is Done.—$500 Reward.		82
Chapter XI.—The “Ballot-Test.”—The Old Gentleman and His “Diseased” Relatives.—A “Hungry Spirit.”—“Palming” A Ballot.—Revelations on Strips of Paper.		88
Chapter XII.—Spiritual “Letters on the Arm.”—How to Make Them Yourself.—The Tambourine and Ring Feats.—Dexter’s Dancing Hats.—Phosphorescent Oil.—Some Spiritual Slang.		96
Chapter XIII.—Demonstrations by “Sampson” Under a Table.—A Medium Who Is Handy with Her Feet.—Exposé of Another Operator in Dark Circles.		102
Chapter XIV.—Spiritual Photographing.—Colorado Jewett and the Spirit-Photographs of General Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Stephen A. Douglas, Napoleon Bonaparte, Etc.—A Lady Of Distinction Seeks and Finds a Spiritual Photograph of Her Deceased Infant, and Her Dead Brother Who Was Yet Alive.—How It Was Done.		109
Chapter XV.—Banner of Light.—Messages from the Dead.—Spiritual Civilities.—Spirit “Hollering.”—Hans von Vleet, The Female Dutchman.—Mrs. Conant’s “Circles.”—Paine’s Table-Tipping Humbug Exposed.		119
Chapter XVI.—Spiritualist Humbugs Waking Up.—Foster Heard From.—S. B. Brittan Heard From.—The Boston Artists and Their Spiritual Portraits.—The Washington Medium and His Spiritual Hands.—The Davenport Brothers and the Sea-Captain’s Wheat-Flour.—The Davenport Brothers Roughly Shown Up by John Bull.—How a Shingle “Stumped” the Spirits.		130
Chapter XVII.—The Davenport Brothers Shown Up Once More.—Dr. Newton at Chicago.—The Spiritualist Bogus Baby.—A Lady Brings Forth a Motive Force.—“Gum” Arabic.—Spiritualist Hebrew.—The Allen Boy.—Dr. Randall.—Portland Evening Courier.—The Fools Not All Dead Yet.		145
III. Trade and Business Impositions.
Chapter XVIII.—Adulterations of Food.—Adulterations of Liquor.—The Colonel’s Whiskey.—The Humbugometer.		152
Chapter XIX.—Adulterations in Drinks.—Riding Home on Your Wine-Barrel.—List of Things to Make Rum.—Things to Color It With.—Canal-Boat Hash.—English Adulteration Law.—Effects of Drugs Used.—How To Use Them.—Buying Liquors Under the Custom-House Lock.—A Homœopathic Dose.		160
Chapter XX.—The Peter Funks and Their Functions.—The Rural Divine and the Watch.—Rise and Progress of Mock Auctions.—Their Decline and Fall.		167
Chapter XXI.—Lottery Sharks.—Boult and His Brothers.—Kenneth, Kimball and Company.—A More Central Location Wanted for Business.—Two Seventeenth-Lies.—Strange Coincidence.		175
Chapter XXII.—Another Lottery Humbug.—Two Hundred and Fifty Recipes.—Vile Books.—“Advantage-Cards.”—A Package for You; Please Send the Money.—Peddling in Western New York.		182
Chapter XXIII.—A California Coal Mine.—A Hartford Coal Mine.—Mysterious Subterranean Canal on the Isthmus.		189
IV. Money Manias.
Chapter XXIV.—The Petroleum Humbug.—The New York and Rangoon Petroleum Company.		195
Chapter XXV.—The Tulipomania.		204
Chapter XXVI.—John Bull’s Great Money Humbug.—The South Sea Bubble in 1720.		213
Chapter XXVII.—Business Humbugs.—John Law.—The Mississippi Scheme.—Johnny Crapaud as Greedy as Johnny Bull.		221
V. Medicine and Quacks.
Chapter XXVIII.—Doctors and Imagination.—Firing A Joke out of a Cannon.—The Paris Eye Water.—Majendie on Medical Knowledge.—Old Sands of Life.		232
Chapter XXIX.—The Consumptive Remedy.—E. Andrews, M. D.—Born Without Birthrights.—Hasheesh Candy.—Roback the Great.—A Conjurer Opposed to Lying.		237
Chapter XXX.—Monsignore Cristoforo Rischio; Or, il Créso, The Nostrum-Vendor of Florence.—A Model for Our Quack Doctors.		242
VI. Hoaxes.
Chapter XXXI.—The Twenty-Seventh Street Ghost.—Spirits on the Rampage.		251
Chapter XXXII.—The Moon-Hoax.		259
Chapter XXXIII.—The Miscegenation Hoax.—A Great Literary Sell.—Political Humbugging.—Tricks of the Wire-Pullers.—Machinery Employed to Render the Pamphlet Notorious.—Who Were Sold and How It Was Done.		273
VII. Ghosts and Witchcrafts.
Chapter XXXIV.—Haunted Houses.—A Night Spent Alone with a Ghost.—Kirby, the Actor.—Colt’s Pistols Versus Hobgoblins.—The Mystery Explained.		284
Chapter XXXV.—Haunted Houses.—Ghosts.—Ghouls.—Phantoms.—Vampires.—Conjurors.—Divining.—Goblins.—Fortune-Telling.—Magic.—Witches.—Sorcery.—Obi.—Dreams.—Signs.—Spiritual Mediums.—False Prophets.—Demonology.—Deviltry Generally.		293
Chapter XXXVI.—Magical Humbugs.—Virgil.—A Pickled Sorcerer.—Cornelius Agrippa.—His Students and His Black Dog.—Doctor Faustus.—Humbugging Horse-Jockeys.—Ziito and His Large Swallow.—Salamanca.—Devil Take the Hindmost.		300
Chapter XXXVII.—Witchcraft.—New York Witches.—The Witch Mania.—How Fast They Burned Them.—The Mode of Trial.—Witches To-Day in Europe.		308
Chapter XXXVIII.—Charms and Incantations.—How Cato Cured Sprains.—The Secret Name of God.—Secret Names of Cities.—Abracadabra.—Cures for Cramp.—Mr. Wright’s Sigil.—Whiskerifusticus.—Witches’ Horses.—Their Curses.—How to Raise the Devil.		314
VIII. Adventurers.
Chapter XXXIX.—The Princess Cariboo; Or, The Queen Of The Isles.		323
Chapter XL.—Count Cagliostro, Alias Joseph Balsamo, Known Also as “Cursed Joe.”		330
Chapter XLI.—The Diamond Necklace.		338
Chapter XLII.—The Count de St. Germain, Sage, Prophet, and Magician.		354
Chapter XLIII.—Riza Bey, the Persian Envoy to Louis XIV.		361
IX. Religious Humbugs.
Chapter XLIV.—Diamond Cut Diamond; Or, Yankee Superstitions.—Matthias the Impostor.—New York Follies Thirty Years Ago.		370
Chapter XLV.—A Religious Humbug on John Bull.—Joanna Southcott.—The Second Shiloh.		380
Chapter XLVI.—The First Humbug in the World.—Advantages of Studying the Impositions of Former Ages.—Heathen Humbugs.—The Ancient Mysteries.—The Cabiri.—Eleusis.—Isis.		386
Chapter XLVII.—Heathen Humbugs No. 2—Heathen Stated Services.—Oracles.—Sibyls.—Auguries.		392
Chapter XLVIII.—Modern Heathen Humbugs.—Fetishism.—Obi.—Vaudoux.—Indian Powwows.—Lamaism.—Revolving Prayers.—Praying to Death.		401
Chapter XLIX.—Ordeals.—Duels.—Wager of Battle.—Abraham Thornton.—Red Hot Iron.—Boiling Water.—Swimming.—Swearing.—Corsned.—Pagan Ordeals.		408
Chapter L.—Apollonius of Tyana.		415