That cinnamon drops are coloured red with a dye-stuff manufactured out of the dried bodies of cochineal insects.

§311

That the missionaries in China and Africa make fortunes robbing the natives they are sent out to convert.

§312

That there is a revolution in Central America every morning before breakfast, and that the sole object of all the revolutionary chiefs is to seize the money in the public treasury and make off to Paris.

§313

That whenever there is a funeral in an Irish family the mourners all get drunk and proceed to assault one another with clubs.

§314

That all immigrants come to America in search of liberty, and that when they attempt to exercise it they should be immediately sent back.

§315