Barnum\'s Museum now lives only in the past. Its successor, known as Wood\'s Museum, is situated at the corner of Twenty-ninth street and Broadway. But at the time of my story the old Barnum\'s stood below the Astor House, on the site now occupied by those magnificent structures, the Herald building and the Park Bank. Hither flowed daily and nightly a crowd of visitors who certainly got the worth of their money, only twenty-five cents, in the numberless varied curiosities which the unequaled showman had gathered from all quarters of the world.