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Universal Newspaper Newsreel title card reads, "Oddities in To-day's News / Shoot million volts through baby's body- Walter Church, 2, is unharmed by experiment / Harrison, N.J." Church is taken next to a Van Der Graaf generator by his grandfather who gives him a metal rod to conduct electricity with. Another man places a lightbulb onto of Walter's grandpa. The man does more tricks with electricity, conducting it from a penny on his head to a metal rod. Title reads, " Bunnies lose 'Bennies' / Heavy powered puff demand speeds up shearing on world's biggest rabbit farm / Seattle Wash." Five women in a row each have a bunny and are shearing them with metal clippers. There are closeups of the bunnies as the women cut them. The last shot is of the women gathering the fur and placing it in a basket. Title reads, "Thrift in the Gay '90's / Toy banks that helped to build modern fortunes shown in savings drive / Westwood, N.J." Various antique toy banks/coin banks are laying on a shelf. There are pig, horse, soldier, Native American, and cowboy etc. toy banks. Then there are closeups of more toys and demonstrations to how they work. An Uncle Sam bank works by placing a coin in a purse, a bird bank 'feeds' the coin to its young, a hunter shoots it into a tree etc.