I'm the penny-splitter of the world, the girl that made the Five-and-Ten-Cent Store millinery department famous.

Boss and the madam had been reading the papers, when he broke out with the exclamation: "The very idea of electing an old rail splitter to the presidency of the United States!

So severely dialectical was he that he seemed to be a hair-splitter.

Notwithstanding, democracy is fully complete there, and the election of Mr. Lincoln, once drover, once flatboatman, once rail-splitter, once clerkof Mr. Lincoln, the son of his works, who has succeeded by his own powers in becoming a well-informed man and an orator, this election proves certainly that American equality is not menaced by the success of the republican party.

Lincoln's parentage Rail splitter; country merchant In the Black Hawk war Postmaster His aspirations and passion for politics Stump speaker Surveyor Elected to the legislature Lincoln as politician Admitted to the bar Elected member of Congress His marriage Lincoln as lawyer Orator

The young rail-splitter had also a knack of slaughtering hogs, for which he received thirty cents a day.

The rail-splitter became President of the United States, and Senator Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, Vice President.

prism, diffraction grating; beam splitter, half-wave plate, quarter-wave plate.

That, I think, would be the outcome of Emerson's 'Representative Men,' or of those most tragic 'Memoirs of Margaret Puller Ossoli.'" "How then, hair-splitter?

Out in Illinois, a plain rail-splitter, farmer and lawyer was beginning to be heard in the cause of freedom and justice for all men, black or white.

Through the summer and fall of 1830 and the early winter of 1831, Mr. Lincoln worked in the vicinity of his father's new home, usually as a farm-hand and rail-splitter.

[Footnote 111: Hair-splitters.] OF ADVERSITY.

Splitters, boundary-riders, dogtrappersevery manjack of 'em.

The "Illinois Rail-splitter."

Their history and campaign incidents were duly paraded in the newspapers; and throughout the Union Lincoln's ancient and local sobriquet of "Honest Old Abe" was supplemented by the national epithet of "The Illinois Bail-splitter."

The sin splitter.

The sin splitter.

The wages of sin splitter.

He took with him a few courtiers, and a large body of miners, rock-splitters, bridge-builders, and workmen of that class, whose services would, very probably, be needed.

" The miners and rock-splitters now began to work at the base of the hill, and then the Jolly-cum-pop made a proposition to the Prince.

But, after a time, he began to tire of this, and to have a strong desire to see what sort of a tunnel the Prince's miners and rock-splitters were making under his house.

"By this time," he said to himself, "the Prince and his followers have returned to my house, and are tired of watching the rock-splitters and miners.

There he found the miners and rock-splitters still at work at the tunnel, which had now penetrated half-way through the hill on which stood his house.

Yesterday the celebrated Midland Spine-splitters met the Ribcracking Rovers at the prepared Ambulance Grounds recently opened in conjunction with the local County Hospital.

Later, however, affairs moved more briskly, one of the Spine-splitter forwards getting the ball well down to goal; but, being met with "opposition," he was carried senseless from the field.