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Show : 1 5S THIS YOUR BIRTHDAY, TOO? TUESDAY, JAN. 18. Scth Low, native of Brooklyn, once mayor of Now York and president of Columbia Co-lumbia university elevon years, during which he galvanized that Institution Into new life. Is three-score years old today. Miss Olga Nelhersole, known to the stage on both sides of the Atlantic, was born in London forty years ago this morning and made her debut In 1SS7 abroad. She likes dogs, golf and fishing. Henry Austin Dobson. British author and poet, Is seventy. Ho was born In Plymouth and entered tho board of trade . In lS5fi Ezoklel S. Candler. Jr.. representative In congress from Corinth, Miss., Is forlv-elght forlv-elght today. Ho Is a member of the Candler family of Georgia, which has been prominent In affairs since revolutionary revolu-tionary days. Ho is a Baptist of distinction. distinc-tion. Willis S. TVIoore, chief weather maker for tho United States government and a printer by early trade, Is fifty-four. Ho was born in Scranton, Pa., and sole! papers pa-pers to Union soldiers in civil war days. James "W. Graydon. known to fame as the Inventor of the dynamite gun bearing bis name. Is sixty-two. He wns a volunteer under Grant and Sherman, and became a midshipman In lSCfi. E. W. Kemble. artist and illustrator, who was born In Sacramento, Is forty-nine. forty-nine. Ills specialty is negro characters. charac-ters. Of (he famous dead who were born on this dale were Daniel Webster (1782) lawyer, orator nnd secretary of stato under un-der two presldcrits, who, according to an English admirer, "looked llko a catho-ilral;" catho-ilral;" Richard Yates, war governor of Illinois, who wns born the year that stato was admlttod (ISIS) and was the youngest member of congress in 1S50: Isaac L. Nicholson (1SH), Protostant Episcopal bishop, nativo of Baltimore, who wns a bank clerk for years after lie (Was graduated from Dartmouth. |