Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-04

Der of the Society of Water-color Painters,
 asserted his right to so many square inches
 on the wall and the attempt failed. On g
 recent afternoon, just as the exhibition was
 about to be closed, NJ. Lipmann, the son-lr-
 law of Alexandre Dumas, came into the sa- l lon, smashed the glass which covered the
 offending portrait, pushed his stick through l the picture in several places, and would have destroyed it altogether but for the interven- ton of the attendants. Meanwhile M. Alex andre Dumas had caused summons to be served on the proprietor of the gallery and the secretary of the Water-color Society, de- manding the removal of the portrait
 A study has been made of the Prussian financial statistics to show the material we'll being of the country's population, from which it appears that of the 2G,716, TOO in habitants 3, 779, 900 are single taxpayers and 5,383, 900 family taxpayers. Of the single taxpayers 90, ,2S6 have moneys of more than 3,COO marks, 1, 183, 1850 moneys below that sum, and the remainder, 2.558, ,OOO persons, incomes of less than 428 marks. The total of class taxes is 42, 147, ,S99 marks, and of in come taxes 34, AS, ,426. Seven taxpayers alone pay an aggregate of 338, 400 marks. The largest individual income belongs to 8 resident of Wiesbaden, and is 2,500, 900 marks. Another citizen of that place has one of ?, 1880, 900. There is person in Dus- seldorf with an income of 2,10O, 600 marks, one in Oppein with one of 95O,0CO, one in Berlin with 2,OOO, ,OOO, another in Berlin with 900, GOO, and one in Munster with 500, GOO.
 President Angen, of Michigan University, in his speech on returning home the other night,I said that the American ambassadors to China found no trouble in obtaining satis- factory terms from the Chinese treaty -mak- CTS. Concerning the opium article. which has been seriously criticised in this country. President Angell said I've were more than ready, we were glad and joyful, to set our hands to treaty that should prohibit our countrymen from encouraging the traffic in that drug which costs China more than the entire value of it's tea crop, more than the entire value of it's silk crop; which costs China almost as much as both its great arti- Cl6S 6XpOII, UGH duu BLK, hAu nAACA ID 0o unqualified and unmitigated curse to the na- ton from one end to the other. When the Chinese government asked us to help them free themselves from the letters which have been bound upon them not by their own vo- lition, but by western nation, say we were only too glad to set our seal to the treaty; not because we supposed it would stop the importation of opium but because we knew that if we would sign such treaty China be- ieved nation after nation might be induced to agree to similar treaties until fire should be built around Great Britain so hot that she could no longer stand it. am happy to say that since that Brazil has signed such treaty. When we got there the Brazilian commis- sioners were negotiating treaty with China They reached China before we did. They were in the first embassy that met on the soil of China. They lad been asked before we were to sign 8 similar article. Brazil had refused because she was afraid of England. After we signed the treaty Brazil signed an article. Russia has put it into her late treaty also n