Show AN A AMERICAN GOOOE S 4 Lady Curzons Conquest of the Orientals of India I A RAPTUROUS RHAPSODY 4 VICEROYS WIFE ENTHKONED ASA AS-A DIVINITY 4 Her Ladyship Compared to a Pull Moon I An Autumnal Sky Domestic Do-mestic Tragedies Laid Bare I the London Divorce Court Earl Married Mar-ried a lunatic Copyright 1S33 by the Associated Press Eondon Feb 25aIt is expected that the new United States ambassador to the court of St James Mr Joseph H Choate who left New York on board the American line steamer St Paul for Southampton on Wednesday last will be presented to Queen Victoria by the British prime minister Lord Salisbury on March 7 at Windsor castle when her majesty will hold a privy council prior to her departure for the south of France Vanity Fair however says it Is still possible that the queen will not go to Olmiez although every preparation has been made for her departure I seems that i depends largely upon the course of events in France during the next few days and it is certain that many Englishmen do not wish her majesty togo to-go to France just now The queen at present Is enjoying wonderful health save for an occasional touch of rheumatism rheu-matism She is exempt from the nenv ous headaches to which she was formerly for-merly a victim her hearing remains very acute and even her sight is stronger than that of most persons of her age The decoration of Lady Curzon of Kedleistone wife of the viceroy of India In-dia with the Imperial Order of the rown of India is a high distinction as the order is practically reserved for royalties and the wives of secretaries of state for India viceroys governors and native princes The Indian mails just received show Lady Curzon has made a conquest of AngloIndian society so-ciety while the native papers pay her slowing tributes AN ORIENTAL RHAPSODY The Bangabasi a leading vernacular newspaper of Bengal in a truly Oriental Orient-al eulogy declares all the goddesses of the Hindoo Pantheon must hide their heads in the presence of the Lady Cur zon who is like a diamond setting or i full moon in I clear autumnal sky The paper adds Her color is molten grid its whiteness assuming a tingel of rtd in the wan climate of this country Hcr teeth are like a set of pearls her waist is beautifully slender slen-der ana her hair like raven tresses setting off her white complexion making mak-ing her look young Her wellshaped head is beautifully poised on a swanlike swan-like neck nor eyes handsomely purple are ever restless and beaming intelligence I intelli-gence Her forehead is small and narrow I nar-row her neck is like the neck of aswan I a-swan and her voice resembles the cry I j of a cuckoo Thi rhapsody concludes j I with saying Lady Curzon has moral I S and intellectual gifts seldom allied I aith such beauty A representative of the Associated 7 Press learns that Mr Pierpont Morgan is to bear the enHre cost amounting to about J25000 of the installation of electric lights in St Pauls cathedral I DIVORCE COURT REVELATIONS A sad story came out in the divorce ourt this week when the Hon dArcy Lambton seventh brother of the Earl I of Durham obtained a divorce from his wife formerly oil Australian actress j ac-tress There were three corespond eats Lambtons counsel said the actress i I ac-tress had persuaded his client before I their marriage that she had 500 a I year and was expecting a fortune when she came of age They were married mar-ried in 1SSS and returned to England from Australia in 1S90 Later Mrs I Lambton L L attempted commit suicide I in a no lei in fans Iinaiiy counsel added the Earl of Durham heard unpleasant un-pleasant rumors and told his brother The latter taxed his wife with the statement and she ran away from her home Afterward she wrote her husband a pitiful epistle which was read in court pleading for forgiveness for the sake of their child a daughter 1JI 1 ledMrs born inVlSOl and the miserable aNfh she Mrs Lambton said When you have heard the truth yo will not wonder why I have so often tried to end my Jif < > I began with n lie but I have suffered for i We are nearly starving starv-ing My confession of guilt is the Kreat si punishment of my life Like a coward I was vile enough to tell lies about my mother sister and money they never had I am guilty of nearly all the vile things they nCdrl al 11 say of me What with drink and extravagance extrava-gance I have sunk very low I I could only have the chance of being good again 1 would jump at it Have mercy upon me MARRIED A LUNATIC The scandal recalls the painful circumstances cir-cumstances of the Earl of Durhams marriage lie wedded a strikingly beautiful girl The bride aD3enred strangely at the wedding and when the couple went to the earls countryseat country-seat the behaved in I most peculiar manner Eventually the truth dawned on the earl Ills wife was mad Treatment Treat-ment was tried but not successfully The earl applied to the courts to nullify nul-lify his marriage but his application was refused The countess is now an Inmate of an asylum for the insane at Sussex She is a hopeless idiot but the doctors declare de-clare she will live to an old age The earl was born in 1S55 and was married in 1SS The Prince of Wales hospital fund which started off with such a flourish of trumpets Is now known to have proved more or less of a failure Mati nees concerts balls and every such expedient ex-pedient have been tried culminating in the Ingenious hospital stamp Idea which is also admitted to be a fiasco Now an extraordinary scheme is projected pro-jected the creation of a new order to be entitled the League of Mercy In wnich those who collect and promote the collection of subscriptions for the hospital fund are enrolled as members The new order will be based on the Royal Victorian order and will consist of live classes the highest being Knights Grand Cross There will be a distinctive badge ribbon and festival The motto of the orc > r will be Christo Et Regina The Pi nee of Wales will be grand master RUSSIANIZING i FINLAND Advices received here from Scandinavia Scandi-navia say that the czars decree for the Russiflcation of Finland has awakened awak-ened a feeling of indignation and sympathy sym-pathy The Swedish papers characterize character-ize the decree as a coup detat I provIdes j I pro-vides for an increase of the Russian I t > forces the extension of conscription and makes Russian obligatory and the I official language The Swedish professors pro-fessors at Helsingfors university have been replaced by Russian The Sw dish d-ish indignantly call upon the government I govern-ment to abstain from taking part in the czars peace congress which they stigmatize as hypocritical The prominent promi-nent officers of Finland have sought an audience with the czar on the subject but their request has been refused Manager Frohman has arranged for Mrs Leslie Carter and the princIpal members of his American company to appear in Zaza in 1300 At the matinee on Wednesday at St Georges Hall in behalf of the propagation propa-gation of Christianity in China and the I society to abolish footblndlng among Chinese women a Chinese play was performed In English I was entitled Borrowing Boots which has been a favorite for centuries past on the Chinese Chi-nese stage I proved very entertaining |