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- A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.
- A poor young girl tries to sell matches in a snowstorm. After being robbed by bullies, she lights matches which illuminate visions of a far happier Christmas than the one she faces.
- The adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, still reading, trips over a servant who's on her hands and knees cleaning the walk. He walks through jump-roping girls, runs into a mule, walks into the only other person on an empty street, and then walks into the path of a steamroller. Two cyclists approach his flattened body. Out come their air pumps, and soon our genial hero has set off again, nose in his book.
- The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?
- Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down the street to a house fire. Inside a man sleeps, he awakes amidst flames and throws himself back on the bed. In comes a firefighter, hosing down the blaze. He carries out the victim, down a ladder to safety. Other firefighters enter the house to save belongings, and out comes one with a baby. The saved man rejoices, but it's not over yet. Another resident appears upstairs. He jumps.
- A hungry vagabond snatches a wrapped leg of lamb and jumps into a large wooden barrel to hide. Will he get away scot-free?
- Clown cuts off customer's head and replaces it.
- A cardsharp, saved from suicide by a policeman, joins the Lancers and wins a VC.
- Boys play pranks on people and are chased.
- A salvationist reforms a suicidal drunkard who is later wrecked while escorting emigrants, and saved from the sea by his ex-wife.
- A Lord escapes from a jealous jailer to wed a Lady's maid.
- A yokel's misadventures with a waxworks, police and fire brigade.
- A sacked man's dog finds hidden jewels and tracks the thieves.
- A squire's disowned son is shot while poaching to feed his starving wife.
- A boy causes trouble by scattering an orange peel.
- A widowed sailor returns in time to save his children from eviction.
- Boys stick a dead fly on Grandpa's spectacles.
- A sacked nurse steals an officer's child. Her mother rides to the rescue and shoots the nurse.