Show EARNING TO VICTORIA french papers remind her of the fate of the maine if she goes to france an accident may occur bermin prince moving mysteriously i manila andrew carnegie will soon visit his castle in scotland isoa by the associated press london march 4 influenza haa a epidemic orin in london icing responsible for one in eighteen daring the past week when the deaths from tho disease reached a total of but the increase has been accompanied by the least number of deaths from pulmonary affections recorded during the present winter the cheering announcement comes from berlin that prof ono of prof kochs ablest pupils believes he has discovered a serum tor the cure of pneumonia experiments with animals have ben successful and he is now operating upon human beings the two drawing rooms this week kro ight the people to town the buchels of presented miss astor who wore a white toilette with silver embroidery and a white satin train bordered with single pearls she carried a bouquet of white lilies the united states ambassador mr joseph I 1 choate Is still staying at Cla ridges botel and Is busy house hunting he iab accepted an invitation to attend the annual dinner of the associated chambers of commerce on march 15 the arrangements tor queen victorias departure tor the riviera next thursday have been completed her ajesta will travel to the south of france by way of boulogne sur mer irstead of via cherbourg Cher bourg being the first time she will have visited boulogne since the german war some interest is taken in the tact the queens yacht will ba convoyed by eight of the fastest torpedo froat destroyers in the british navy five of them being thirty knot boats cruisers have been previously employed for this duty and the use of destroyers it is hinted in some of the papers is intended to set off the french papers talk about submarine sub marine torpedo boat there is much indignation in england at the scandalous and coarse attacks made upon queen victoria by some of the newspapers of paris this week the libre parole in an insulting article said frankly the queen will be well advised it she does not came to france this spring the constitutional fiction that it was lord salisbury and not the queen vho aho inflicted the outrage of fashoda and the humiliation of muscat on france will bot suffice it is well known that the queen has directed En glands policy throughout her long and she bas never missed an opportunity of displaying her antipathy for france under the circumstances therefore her visit is an additional insult and defiance of public opinion after this warning it will be her own fault if she meets with a hostile reception in france M Aut orlle says the queen becomes our guest at a moment when the british government haa made itself more than ever our eneny her journey will be full of the frame risks as the maine incurred in entering cuban waters and the french government is committing the same foolish act as senor sagasta by not preventing france from being placed la such position that the smallest accident might precipitate both powers aiato iato a terrible conflict after such insinuations as the foregoing it seems possible thai the queens visit to france will not pass without some chauvinist incident A special police staff has left paris to over her majesty at where her heavy baggage Is already arriving quan victoria pays monthly for her rooms without counting the expense of her suite numbering sixty persons altogether her little trip will cost her about her chaise favorite white donkey and numbers of pet dogs and birds have been benl ahead her majesty also has a curious whim about sleeping in her own bed which is taken with her wherever she goes the prince of wales went to paris this week and visited the exposition grounds he proceeds to cannes on sunday the princes wonderful scheme known as the league of mercy in con with which a new order haa been established for those who collect and promote the collection ot subscriptions for the prince of wales hospital fund five years work required tor admission to the order is severely in several quarters the bally news thinks the prince haa not een fortunately advised in committing himself and in securing the sanction of the queen to auch a schema the paper calls it an organization of by the aristocracy which la repugnant to the idea of charity and not calculated to add to the dignity of the throne th annual report upon recruiting tor the army shows a slight increase in the physical development of the re emits but 85 per cent have still been rejected owing to unsatisfactory physique the announcement Is made that 18 per 1000 were utterly illiterates and that only 49 per thousand are described as v ell educated there has been a revival ot the sen ration caused a few weece ago by the alleged disappearance 0 prince lud lg von who married lady anna saville a daughter of the earl of lex borough he moved a good del in english and then disappeared mysteriously an advertisement inquiring after bis whereabouts caused considerable speculation in tha london press and now a telegram from manila has been published saying the prenco la at manila has been there for many months was present during the destruction of the spanish heet and was a member of the european club but it la added bis behavior aroused suspicion and he as thought to be acting as the confidential agent of the german government batore llaneta surrendered it Is dunber alleged the prince was all to aass ln d out ot the span i lines for a few baya it la even asserted he wa a volunteer aide decamp 0 general miller though be was never connected with 1 the american army the englich pa apers are wondering what Is the mean OT these mysterious movements move menta ft sr thomas lapton has engaged a crow for the cup shamrock numbering thirty men halt of teem ware picked clyde yachtsmen have long been members of the whistles thistles es crew and the remainder are english sailors mr andrew carnegie is expected to return in slay to castle which Is being renovated and furnished during his absence in america A number of relics of sir walter scott were sold at auction this week among them were 83 letters which fetched 1123 his walking stick a betout piece of ash cut in the woods of Abbot stord was sold for and two locks of his hair went for two guineas each A guinea is |