PRIMATE

n : The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead. PRISON, n. A place of punishments rewards. The poet a ures us that— “Stone and walls do not a prison make,” but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets. PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal’s baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope. Proposcis, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk. te ‘ Asked how he knew that an elephant was going on a journey, the illustrious Jo. Miller cast a reproachful look upon his tormentor, and answered, absently: “When it is ajar,” and threw himself from a high promo no tory into the sea. Thus perished in his pride the most famous humorist of antiquity, leaving to mankind a heritage of woe! No succe or worthy of the title has appeared, though Mr. Edward Bok, of The Ladies’ Home Journal, is much respected for the purity and sweetne of his personal character. 272