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Show Wiivlii nylon's Jump. A story is told of Wuhhington making a fatuous jump for a wife during hl-youth. hl-youth. "lie was riding, so tho storv goes, along the Potomac abovo (Jeorge-town, (Jeorge-town, when ho came to the house of a lurge estate, and seeing a crowd on the lawn, he asked the cause of the gathering, gather-ing, lie was told that a jumping match was iu progress, and the prize was the band of tho farmer's daughter. He looked on for a time at tho different jumps, and finally asked if he might not also try his skill. The host con wnted. anil Washington jumped fart hoi than the fari!u-si. As ho did so he noted that the countenance of the maiden fell, and that she looked rather woefully al tho faco of his leading competitor, who had made the next best jump, and who was evidently her lover. Ho resigned his claim to the lady'H hand in hi.- rival's favor, and it is said that this lady afterward after-ward rei-a lied the circumstance when she met him nl one of his presidential levees." Coaniojiolitan. |