It's a version of such mean-spirited comedies as HOW BRIDGET STARTED THE FIRE
When people who are interested in very old films think of Edwin S. Porter, they tend to think of fairly elaborate works like THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY. It's odd to conceive of it, but back when Porter began in the movies, three years before this film, there was no editing in the sense of putting more than one scene in a film. There might be editing for effects; the first show had THE EXECUTION OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, with a cut so the victim could be replaced with a dummy and a chopped-of head. Editing to indicate a transition to a different time or place did not exist. Everything took place in the time and space of a single camera set-up and one roll of film, less than a minute.
So the fact that this short film uses two very clearly differentiated shots at two very clearly differentiated locations and moments makes it enormously advanced for the year it was released.