It is with the best intentions that persons send envelopes, stamped and addressed, when an answer may be expected. But it is a great bore to a busy man, who has scores of letters with every mail, and cannot answer at once. When ready to reply, the "stamped and addressed envelopes" are either forgotten or cannot be found. On our table is a basket full of these nuisances. A stamp is all very well. They can be thrown into the stamp-box as received. This has been noticed before, but some people do not live and learn as they should do.

We have two cards from correspondents, one of whom advocates addressed and stamped envelopes, on the ground that if the party addressed deigns no reply, he shall not at any rate use their stamp for any other business. To our mind it is worth a three-cent stamp to read some of their letters. There is no accounting for tastes. Those who care for these things can have them.