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COMEDY.
before the entrance, and they trip over it into the street. All are under the influence of liquor, and they make an amusing sight as they attempt to carry the ladder in front of them. The experience culminates in the friends being taken into custody by the police and, luckily for the suburbanite, he is enabled to proceed.
The man and the ladder at the railway station. Frantic effort to get the ladder through the station doorway; he makes frantic efforts to get a twenty-foot ladder through a ten-foot doorway in an upright position. Some friendly porters and passengers help him out of his difficulty, and he bolts through the booking office, past the barrier, on to the platform.
Struggles on the platform. More havoc and distress. Arrival of the train. Owner and ladder bundled into the guard's van as luggage.
Suburbanite arrives home, packed as goods, bound with rope between the two halves of the ladder, which has apparently been cut in half for the purpose, and makes an admirable straight-jackoi.
G-. D. 1584.
THE ELECTRIC BEET. Approximate Length, 667 feet.
Price, ยง80.04.
A wife who sympathizes with her hubby, who is afflicted with lumbago, discovers the newspaper advertisement of a doctor who offers to cure all such sufferers by means of^ an electric belt. To this doctor she goes, buys the belt and sews it in the lining of her husband's overcoat. He now comes into the room, bent and with a pained expression; but he puts on the coat and is transformed into a prancing, jumping, lively individual. The belt seems to exercise a sort of amorous influence over him, for the first thing he does on reaching the street is to jump in between two old women and kiss them vigorously; after this he tries his affections on a pretty damsel and he lands in a police station. Here, as soon as he is stripped of his coat, he is once more a bent, sick man; but his coat is put on a rack and he is thrown into a cell. A lady now enters, apparently the sergeant's friend, and the police officer taking a coat up from the rack accompanies her out. The belt has taken effect on him, for his first act on reaching the house is to kiss the maid. While he and his companions are in another room a tramp enters and steals the hat and coat. He, too, becomes seized with the fidgets and goes out on a kissing expedition, attacking several ladies with his caresses and finally making a public nuisance of himself by upsetting a push cart, the female proprietor of which he attempts to kiss. He is arrested and taken before a magistrate. As soon as he is stripped of the coat he becomes calm and normal, but he is placed under lock and key. The original owner of the
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