The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-20
PERSONAL.

| DR. mckenzie, the Washington veterinary
physician who has made SO much money bet
| ting on horse races this season, continues to
| cash his pool tickets. He made more than
| $4,000 on Proctor Knott's capture of the
Futurity stakes. DR.. Mckenzie has purchased
a house in Washington with his winnings, and
| has built up most presentabe bank account.
+ Never before has a veterinary surgeon made so
much money from healthy horses.
| LEONARD WooLsKy BACON, in the Tndependent
| gives Il most charming sketch of the centena-
| riau, the late Col George L. Perkins of Nor
witch. Conn. II met the old man one day in a
| back street where n hand or gan had been play
| ing to group of children" says DR.. Bacon.
| ~ suppose you would like to see me dance a
| hornppey' said Col. Perkins to the children.
They said they would, and the centenaran
lifted up his coat tails and danced it for them ~
| THE Russian Czarina, though nearly 40 years
| of age, has still a girllsh appearance; her
| sparkling eyes and her joyful smile, her grace
| full and yet natural movements, as she shows
them when dancing, all combine to impress her
with that stamp of youthfunesS rare at her
| time of life And how she laughs-so heartily
| so loud, so naturally that she herself seems now
| and then to think it almost frivolous, when a
| bashful red at once covers her face and makes
| her look still more like a big girl or an over
| grown child,
THIS incident, told by James Payn, suggests
| a new and novel definition of gentleman: "A
| lady singer, little passee as to years. and
whose voice was not so good as IL used to be,
| groaned and Kissed, whereupon person In the
| gallery called out, reproachfully: Let the
| bloomin' old COW have fair play Then the
| lady came down to the footlights, aud with
marked distinctneSs expressed her satisfaction
that in the assembly before her there was ut
least one true gentleman.
| IT is said that few people, even in Philadel-
phia, know anything about the personal char
| acterstics OF Samuel j. Randall, They know
him as a tall, gaunt figure. slightly stopped,
| clad in clothes that seldom tit him well, for he
| pays more attention to other things than 10 his
attire. They have picked him out half square
away, with his piercing black eyes peering from
| under the slouching brim of a hat more or less
| old. and many have said Here comes Randall
| from his law office" Yet, Mr. Randall never
had a law Office and only a man here and
| there knows that he never studied law. In
reality he started out as an iron merchant, but
did not MAKE success of IL.
JOSEPH FIFEB, the republican nominee for
| governor of Illinois, has n very self possessed
and sensible wife. During the convention there
was great excitement in Bloomington. but Mrs.
Fifer remained unmoved She was at a church
| fair when telegram was brought to her which
she opened and read and then tucked in her
/ pocket IL announced her husbands nonina-
| ton. but Gid not seem 10 corCern her In the
least, and she went on with her duties until in
| terrupted by people from the outside, who came
| in to tell her the news and offer their congratu-
lations Then she told them that she had
already received a dispatch from her husband
| containing tine announcement OF his success.