Now there are dozens of members of Congress who are not only "first-class humbugs and frauds," but whiskey meters, to whom whiskey is both meat and drink, and yet who ever heard of their proposing to abolish themselves?

" Somehow or other these good boys always turn out humbugs.

But, sir, as sure as you live he's making his people slaves and humbugs.

"An arrant lot of humbugs.

She doesn't know what humbugs men are.

[Illustration: ONE OF OUR SOCIAL HUMBUGS.

I do not speak of the humbugs who deliberately exploit the credulity of fools.

Notes and then more notes were exchanged, there were goings and comings, mutual recriminations, meetings, lobbyings, arguments, even talk of an insurrection of the natives, of their indolence, of inferior and superior races, of prestige and other humbugs, so that after much gossip and more recrimination, the permit was granted, Padre Salvi at the same time publishing a pastoral that was read by no one but the proof-reader.

In our democracies, however, it is impossible to believe in the divinity of humbugs, shaky and discredited, like some of our moth-eaten Ministers; we are too close to them, we know their dirty tricks, so they have invented the idea of concealing God behind their drop-curtain; God means the Republic, the Country, Justice, Civilisation; the names are painted up on the outside.

He made skilful enquiries regarding the stranger; she was Mademoiselle Suzanne Durand, who had just completed her education at Saint-Denis, the daughter of Captain Durand, "a bad parishioner," his servant told him, "who paid little regard to the service and treated the priests as humbugs.

"It may appear very odd and ridiculous to you," she said, "that a person connected with my family should be engaged in a business like that, for those fertilizers, as you ought to know, are all humbugs of the vilest kind.

As for the heroes of early Christianity, they were madmen or humbugs; their legends, devilish and filthy puerilities.

Nor again can Mrs. Jameson's English honesty avoid an occasional slip of delicate sarcasm; for instance, in the story of St. Filomena, a brand-new saint, whose discovery at Rome, in 1802, produced there an excitement which we should suspect was very much wanted, which we recommend to all our readers as an instance of the state into which the virtues of honesty and common sense seem to have fallen in the Eternal Cityof humbugs.

We are all humbugs, unless we are made true by Dispensation.

We tossed to the fish humbugs of wool, silk, and feathers, gauds such as captivate the greedy or the guileless.

Another class of prosperous humbugs is the fortune-tellers, who are found around every temple and in every public place, ready to forecast the fate of every enterprise that may be disclosed to them; ready to predict good fortune and evil fortune, and sometimes they display remarkable penetration and predict events with startling accuracy.

Their opponents say that they are sheer humbugs, and brought into life by a few old political hacks for their own selfish ends.

HYPNOTISTS AND HUMBUGS AT MURPHY'S CAMP IN '49, by Harry C. Peterson.

Hypnotists and humbugs at Murphy's Camp in '49.

Hypnotists and humbugs at Murphy's Camp in '49.

" Like all the other humbugs of superstition, this new doctrine seems to me to contain but a single drop of truth submerged in an ocean of folly.

I can't have any humbugs here, though I have sent out some humbugs.

Here, we must stow this talk, or we shall become both humbugs and materialists.

Lawyers, according to him, were a set of thorough humbugs and impostors, who gained their living by false pretencethat of affording advice and counsel, which every sane man could better render himself.

or that you, an' the likes of you, an' yer Master, are all shams an' humbugs.