The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs Delusions Impositions Quacke
The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs Delusions Impositions Quacke
Barnum Phineas Taylor
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Indeed, I consider him more an ornamental and useful character than otherwise. He has brightened many a traveler s 11* 250 HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD. recollections, relieved the tedium of many a weary hour in a foreign city, and, with all his deception, has never severed himself from the popular faith, nor sold out the popular cause. I dare say his death, when it occurs, will cause more sensation and evoke more tears, than that of any better physician in Tuscany. ^ VI. HOAXES. CHAPTER XXXI. THE TWEN...TY-SEVENTH STREET GHOST. SPIRITS ON THE RAMPAGE. In classing the ghost excitement that agitated our good people to such an extent some two years ago among the " humbugs " of the age, 1 must, at the out set, remind my readers that there was no little accumu lation of what is termed " respectable " testimony, as to the reality of his ghostship in Twenty-seventh street. One fine Sunday morning, in the early part of 1863, my friends of the " Sunday Mercury " astonished their many thousands of patrons with an account that had been brought to them of a fearful spectre that had made its appearance in one of the best houses in Twenty- seventh Street.
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