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A tribute to the Chinaman as a workman is paid by the. American Consul in Canton^ who says that, with foreign overseers, they are among "the best workmen in the world." Allusions to Great Britain's naval and military "impotence" are becoming of daily occurrence in Germany. Recently Dr. Carl Abel, a German, who lived in England for many years and who is the author of several books on conditions in Great Britain, said: "lean assure my friends that my very thorough studies in England, extending over many years, have absolutely convinced mb that both the British army and the British navy are utterly , uufit to wage war, and that for this reason alone all talk of a British attack on Germany is quite absurd. The annual meeting of the Institute of Metals was opened at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Westminster, Sir -William White presiding. Sir Gerard Muntz, in his presidential address, said that those who lived in the twentieth century sometimes nattered themselves that they were a ■wonderful people, -and that their science surpassed immeasurably the j knowledge possessed by their forebears. But which of them to-day knew the secrets of the ancients of Egypt and Babylonia which enabled them to harden bronzes to a cutting edge, and so face the stones for those marvels of architecture — the pyramids aud temples of Egypt? There alone was a little matter which might occupy the scientific and practical members of tho institute for some time to 50m©.