J Was Once Term of Reproach. I A "Prlmo mlnlstor" Is ono of tho 4 many terms In English which seem to f have been slang at ono time. It wai f 'first applied to Sir Robert Walpolo, but In n reproachful sense. Fob. 11, .1742, after twenty years tenuro of of-Jflce, of-Jflce, Sir Hobort resigned nil his era-p.oymonts. era-p.oymonts. "Having Invested mo," ho remarked, "with n kind of mock dig-nlty dig-nlty and Htylcd mo prlmo mlntslor, they Imputo to ma an unpnrdonablo abuso of that chimerical authority which thoy created and conferred." ISuch n porsonago ns tho prlmo minister min-ister or tho premier Is not oven men- 1'tionod In tho ofllclal table of pro 'cedenco nnd Is unknown to tho writ-'ten writ-'ten constitution of Great Drltala.