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GEORGE WASHINGTON AT THE RACES. Presidenl Wilson in his "At Home in Virgina" has given some interesting sketches of the great liri incident of the I nited States of America. Among oilier tilings he says: "Washington loved horses and dogs with the heartiest sportsman of tliem all. He had a great gust for stalking deer with Ceorg* Mason on the broad forest tract around Cmiston Hall, and liked often to take gun or rod after lesser game wheu he days were dull; but U-si of all 1m- loved a horses back and the hard ride for hours together after the dogs and crafty quarry a horse thai put a man to his | oints to ride, a oiuiirv where the running was only for Mass*- ul.o iLired. His own mounts could lie nowhere licKon-d in Virginia. He loved a game of cards in almost any company and paid his slakes lilioi, the rubber like any oilier well-conducted man oi hi century. He did not find Annapolis. ,,r even Philadelphia, loo far away to lie visited for the pleasure of seeing a g I horse race or enjoying ■ round of I. alls and evenings at he heater, to shake off rustic dullness or a too constant stay at h .line. In ITTn he was with Governor Eden, of North Carolina, at the Jockey Club races near Philadelphia. loulit relieved bv the news that all I. Ml Hie tea tax had been repealed. The next y.ar il v. a- the races at Annaiiolis that charmed him: and in 177.: Jackcy Curtis held him in Philadelphia on tlie same errand. It was wholesome lo le thus calmly in pursuit of diversion in the intervals of Irving business. It lics|ioke a hearty life and a line balance in tbe man."
