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Show PRINCESS FREDERICK IN PARIS. Kewipaper Reporters Hounding ller Almost Al-most to Distraction. Pakis, Feb. 23. Empress Frederick of Germany took lunch yesterday with Baron de Tticher, Bavarian charge de affairs, where she met Whitelaw Heed, United States minister, and Lytton, British ambassador. The reporters still haunt the imperial visitor as she travels about this city, and the result is that Fmpress Frederick has resorted to var-ioiM var-ioiM expedients in an attempt to shake off the newspaper men hovering about the embassy. Frequently the empress nd her daughter, Princess Margaret, drive in different directions in order to create a diversion and bewilder the journalistic forces. But the latter manage to keep pretty closely on the trail of the empress in spite of her efforts to keep away from them. Yesterday evening there was a rumor circulated to the effect that two of tho ladies would be present at the Lamarnex concert. Consequently a great crowd collected in and about the vicinity of the concert hall. But the empress and her daughter did not appear. Two Germans sang Mozart and Wagner duets in German, a hazardous proceeding proceed-ing before a French public audience. After hesitating for a few moments, as if undecided whether to hiss or applaud, the audience suddenly burst out to vociferous applause. There can be no doubt but that the empress' visit to Paris is productive here of a much better feeliug toward Germany, London. F'eb. 23. A dispatch from Paris to the Times published today, says the principal motive for Empress Frederick's visit to Paris is tho settlement settle-ment of 2,000,000 louis bequeathed to her by the Duchess Galliera. This legacy, leg-acy, according to the Times correspondent, correspon-dent, the empress intends to apply to refurnishing and to the decoration of the castle of Konig-stain, drawing heavily heav-ily upon the French art collections in carrying out this task. |