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ONCE met a man, who made nerve and bone all

healing salve; he was an enterprising kind of fellow, so he thought he would experiment a little with it. He first cut off his dog's tail, and applied some to the stump-a new tail grew out immediately. He then applied some to the piece of the tail which he cut off, and a new dog grew out. He did not know which dog was which.

Old Traveller's Story.

THE

Humbugs of the World.

BY

P. T. BARNUM.

"Omne ignotum pro mirifico."-" Wonderful, because mysterious."

PUBLISHER'S NOTE.

MR. BARNUM's whole career has been a very transparent one. He has never befooled the public to its injury, and, though his name has come to be looked upon as a synonym for humbuggery, there never was a public man who was less of one.

After the burning of the Museum, and his temporary retirement from New York, a public journal thus spoke of him :- 66 The hearty good wishes of many good men and the sympathies of the community in which he has lived, go with him, and the public he has so long amused, but never abused, will, be ready to sustain him whenever he makes another appeal to them." Mr. Barnum is a very good sort of representative Yankee. When crowds of traders and manufacturers in Liverpool, Manchester, and London, flocked to hear his lectures on the art of making money, they expected to hear from him some very smart recipes for knavery; but they were as much astonished as they were edified to learn that the only secret he had to tell them was to be honest, and not to expect something for nothing. Those who look upon Barnum as a mere charlatan, have really no knowledge of him. It would be easy

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