Once Madame Ducordon discovers the joys of a new fashionable dance, she starts performing it wherever she happens to be.
In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.
An Indian maiden wishes to marry her lover, but her father refuses because he does not have the requisite bride price.
