Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-25
Our Ambassador Will Soon be
Received.
LADY CURZON IS POPULAR
Eul0gized by the Papers of India
Sad Story Brought Out in
the Divorce Court,

London, Feb. 25.-(Copyrighted, 1899, by
the Associated Press.)-It is expected hat
the new United States ambassador to the
court of st. James, MI. Joseph II. Choate,
who left New York on board the Ameri-
can line steamer st. Pau for Southamp-
ton, on Wednesday last, will be presented
to Queen Victoria by the British prime
minister, Lord Salisbury, on March i, at
Windsor castle, when her majesty will
hold a privy council, prior to her depart
ure for the south of France Vanity
Fair, however, says it is still possible
that the queen will not 6. to Cimiez, al
though every preparation has been made
for her departure. 1t seems that it de-
ponds 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 to go to France just
now.
The queen at present is enjoying Won
derful health, save for an occasional
touch of rheumatism. She is exempt
from the nervous headaches to which she
was formerly a victim, her hearing re-
mains very acute, and even her eye
sight is stronger than that of most per-
sons of her age.
The decoration of aLdy Curzon of
Keddleston, wife of the vicer y of India,
with the imperial order of the Crown Of
India, is a high distinction, as the order
Is practically reserved for royalty and
the wives of the secretaries of state for
India, viceroys, governor and native
princes. The Indian mails just received
show Lady Curzon ha made a inquest
of A~nglo-1ndian society. while the ma
tive papers pay her glowing tributes.
Thp RnnpahnCi a 1nnliro or ', ~ ,,1, =,
newspaper of Bengal, in a truly oriental
eulosy, declares "all the goddesses of
the HindoO pantheon must hide their
heads in the presence of Lady CurzOn,
who is Xix a diamond setting, or a full
moon in a clear autumnal sky" The
paper adds: Her color is molten gold.
its whiteness assumed a tinge of red in
the warm climate of this country. Her
teeth are like a set of pearls. her waist
is beautifully slender and her hair like
raven %tresses, setting off her white COM
pleXion, making her look young. Her
we'll shaped head is beautifully poised
on a sWanlike neck, her eyes, handsomely
purple, are ever restless and beaming
with intelligence. Her forehead Is small
and narrow, her neck is like the neck of
a swan and her voice resembles the cry
of a cuckoo" This rhapsody concludes
with saying Lady Curzon has moral and
intellectual gifts seldom allied with such
beauty.
A representative of the Associated
press learns that Mr.. Pierrepont Morgan
is to bear the entire cost. amounting to
$4,000, for the installation of electric
lights in st. Paul's cathedral.
"A SAD story came out in the divorce
court this week when Darcy Lamb
ton, seventh brother of the Earl of Dur
ham, obtained a divorce from his wife.
formerly an Australian actress. There
We're three correspondents. Lambton's
counsel said the actress had persuaded
his client, before their marriage. that she
mad $500 a year, and was expecting a for
tune when she came of age. They were
married in 1883 and returned to England
IN 1870. Later Mrs. Lambton
to commit suicide in a hotel in Paris.
FINALLY, counsel added, the Earl of Dur
ham heard unpleasant rumors and told
ms brother. The latter taxed his wife
win the statement and she ran away
frons her home. Afterwards she wrote
her husband a pitiful epistle, which was
read in court, pleading for forgiveness
Tor the sake of their child, a daughter.
born in 1891, and the miserable life she
led. Mrs. Lambton said:
hen you have heard the truth you
will not wonder why I nave so often
tired to end my life. 1 began with a lie.
but | have suffered for It. We are nearly
starving. My confession of guilt is the
greatest punishment of my life. Like
a coward, I was vile enough to lie about
AS W HIOllGI, SISleT ana money thew
never had. l am guilty of nearly all the
vile things they say of me. What, with
drink and extravaganza, I have sunk
very low. If I could only have the
chance of being good again, l would
jump at 1t. Have mercy upon me-"
The scandal. recalls the painful cir
cumstance of the Earl of Durham's mar
riage. He welded a strikingly beautiful
girl. The bride appeared strangely at
the wedding, and when the couple went
to the earfs country seat she behaved in
a most peculiar manner. Eventually the
truth daWned on the earl. His wife was
MAD. The earl applied to the courts to
nullify the 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 she will live to an old
age.
The Prince of Wales hospital fund.
Which was started off with such a flourish
of ~trumpets.. is now known to have
proved more or less Of q failure. Matt
nees, concerts, balls and every such eX-
pedient have been tried, eliminating in
the dubious hospital stamp idea, and
nave proved a fiasco. Another scheme
Is proJected-the creation of a new order,
to be entitled the League Of Mercy, II ,
which those who collect and promote the |
collection of subscriptions for the hos
pltal fund are enrolled as members. The
new order will be based on the royal
victorian order and will consist Of five
classes, the highest being knights of the
Grand Cross. There will be a distinctive
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