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| 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 | |
