Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. In particular the spelling of proper names viz. Catharine of Arragon remain.

In chapter XI: "By the bye," I put in, "it seems to me the Morman has the biggest kick coming against his wives' mothers, yet I've never heard a word....

Morman is almost certainly Mormon or Mormon man.

Italics are represented thus _italic_.

THE ASBESTOS SOCIETY
OF SINNERS

The Asbestos
Society
of Sinners

Detailing the Diversions of Dives and others on the Playground
of Pluto, with some broken threads of Drop-stitch
History, picked up by a Newspaper man
in Hades and woven into a Stygian Nights’
Entertainment.

BY
LAWRENCE DANIEL FOGG

MAYHEW PUBLISHING COMPANY
92-100 Ruggles Street
Boston, Mass.

Copyright, 1906
by
Lawrence Daniel Fogg

_All Rights Reserved._

Dedicated to
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
Who first made Hades a pleasant place of abode and aroused
in his reader a desire to go cruising on the Styx

CONTENTS:

CHAPTER. PAGE.

I. THE SUMMONS FROM SATAN 3

II. SHADY SINNERS OF THE STYX 15

III. JOHN BROWN’S BODY AND THE BONES
OF JOHN PAUL JONES 31

IV. HENRY THE EIGHTH AND HIS HAREM
IN HADES 47

V. WHAT METHUSELAH THINKS OF
DR. OSLER 63

VI. THE VIRGIN THRONED IN THE WEST:
A TABLOID TANGLE OF LOVE
AND HISTORY 75

VII. “BOSS” TWEED ON TAINTED MONEY,
WITH SOME NONSENSE DEFINITIONS
OF FADS AND FINANCE 95

VIII. HOW THE CREATION CENTERED ABOUT
A PETTICOAT: A REVISED VERSION OF
DARWIN’S “ASCENT OF MAN” 107

IX. WHEN ADAM WAS A BOY: RANDOM
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE OLDEST
INHABITANT 119

X. ELECTION DAY BEYOND THE STYX 129

XI. NOAH’S PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED
EXCURSION TO EARTH 143

XII. THE MAN WITH THE MEGAPHONE 153