The Biter Bitten

The proht and loss on contracta are Hable to be affected by undreamed of eontingencies, as the following anecdote will show. An intemperate feliow was persuaded by a sharp man of business to turn some property he held over to him, in consideration of reeeiving two suits of clothes every year, and an allowance of twelve shillings a week so long as he lived; his speculative benefactor calculating the dissipated rascal would soon drink himself to death. He was doomed to be grievously disappointed. As soon as the agreement was signed, sealed, and delivered, the wily fellow forswore intoxicants, and lived respectably to a ripe oíd age, leaving the bargain-monger and his trustees after him, with a balance, so far as that speculation went, very much on the wrong side of the ledger. In this case, the would-be biter was himself bitten pretty hard. A farmer writes to an eastern paper about his hogs: I deposit, he says, a liberal share of loam in my hog-yards every spring and run the sink-slops upon that, and add to the supply of loam from time to time as I judge neeessary. The hogs make a "wallow" in a short time, where they seem to enjoy much comfort in the hottest weather ; indeed, I have seen a four hundred hog so completely submerged in his wallow that there was none of him visible except his nose. It was at his option to wallow there or go ln:o his pen, where there was dry litte on a plank floor; and 1 believe he knew best where his greatest enjoymunt was to be found, - An Arabian proverb says, "The ïdle are a peculiar kind of dead, who cannot be buried."