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Show VICTORIA'S BIRTHDAY. England's Oueen Reaches Her Seventy-third Seventy-third Mile Post. New York, May 24. A dispatch from London says: Flags are flying from church I steeples, municipal and government bui d- ings, and hundreds of thousands of business structures and private residences in Great Britain today, and the bells in every Episcopal Episco-pal church from one end of the land to the other are ringing merrily. All of this is in celebration of the fact that today her majesty, maj-esty, Victoria, queeu of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India, reaches the T8rd year of her existence upon this earth. A month hence the fifty-seventh year of her reign will commence. The" venerable sovereign, who is quietly spending -the day at Windsor surrounded by her children and grandchildren, has been the recipient of numerous loyal addresses, and has received telegrams of congratulation from the czar of Russia, the emperor of Germany, the pre.-ident of the French republic, and from dearly alt of the United States ambassadors abroad. Since her return from her visit to France her majesty has been in excellent health. She has a tine constitution and lives under the healthiest conditions. Hard work and a great deal of outdoor exercise seem to suit her perfectly, and she takes Ions: drives every day in an open carriage. This afternoon, after-noon, in accordance with her usual custom lor several years past, she will visit the tomb of the prince consort, and tonight there will be a family dinner at the castle. |