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COMEDY.
ing her feelings to the clerk, who mixes a potion, which she takes and leaves the store.
A carriage is now rapidly driven to the store, and a gentleman alighting goes into the store and complains he has asthma. The clerk listens attentively, then gets a box of pills, which he hands to the customer, pocketing the fee. The gentleman takes one and goes out. Finding the cabman coughing, he hands him one of the pills, which is taken. They then drive off. The cab is now seen coming down the street with the cabman swaying as if drunk, driving the horses first to one side of the road, then the other; ultimately bringing the cab to a stand he falls off the box. A crowd, with police, gathers and, seeing the condition of both gent and cabmen, awaken them with difficulty and take them off.
The clerk is now seen still wasting his time playing cards, not heeding his master's business, perfectly oblivious to what is taking place through his neglect. A dining room, with five persons takirfg their seats at a table, shows another phase of substitute's mistakes. The head of the house hands each of his guests a digestive tablet preparatory to the meal. In a little while the drug begins to take effect; first one yawns, then another, then one after the other they fall asleep, with heads resting on their arms on the table. In this condition a maid servant finds them, and in alarm summonses aid, and they get relief from the dope-drop drug, served by the substitute. Each one, actuated by the same impulse, makes his way to the drug store, where the substitute is still in charge, and begins to take him severely to task. The entrance of the proprietor saves him, and while the victims are pummelling the proprietor the window cleaner escapes with his bucket and ladder.
G. D. 1630.
THE SOLDIER'S HELMET. Approximate Length, 577 feet.
Price, $69.24.
A soldier and a nurse maid are seen seated on a bench in a park telling the old, old story, which culminates in a betrothal. So interested are the couple in themselves that they do not perceive a mischievously inclined workman who has a glue pot in his hand, of which he applies a liberal quantity to the inside of the helmet of the soldier. Finishing their love making, the maid goes off, and the soldier puts on his helmet and returns to the barracks, where, upon his arrival, he tells of his happiness and receives the congratulations of the troop.
About to retire, he finds that his helmet is glued to his head and that the" united efforts of himself and his companions fail to remove it. Finding that he cannot get it off, he goes to bed with it on. The officer of the watch appears on his tour of inspection,
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