Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-14
News From Foreign Capitals

an entertainment lasting three hours
it would be utterly impossible to ex'
pect more than glimpse OF the most
important figures in Dickens master.
piece.
The scenery, to which special study
has been given, is unusual and ex-
tremely. artistic, the black outlines
and flat tones producing an aston
fishing effect of unrealism. 1t was
as if series of old popular English
prints hade come to life. The quaint
costumes completed this unique and
very charming effect.
Plays on David Copperfield" and
Martin Chuzzlewit" are in rehearsal
and will be produced during the COM
ing season at two different Paris
theaters.
The extraordinary results which
American investigators have attained
in the mixing of vegetable species
so as to produce original and more
useful varities have been more dis.
cussed by the European members of
the International Genetic congress
than any other new material brought
before that body of savants at the
conference just ended in Paris. This
association deals with the principles
that underlie the propagation and de-
velOpment of life both plant and ami
NAL, leading up to the need of the
intricate research into the conscious
modification of the human species.
Prince Roland Bonaparte, whose
absorption in science has entirely
withdrawn him from politics, did
much to make the present congress
a success. He and Phillip Vilmorin.
the secretary, are in favor. on account
of the interesting work of Ameri-
cans, of holding the next meeting
projected for 1915 in San Francisco,
that Is during the exposition year.
Walter T. Swingle of the department
of agriculture one of the delegates
of the United States government
persuaded many of the European
members to favor the long journey to
San Francisco. The next meeting
place has been left to the decision
of committee which will take San
Francisco into consideration.
Harvard was represented by Prof.
E. E. Southland. director of the Psy:
chopathic Hospital. Boston. Professor
Laughlin was here, representing the
Carnegie Laboratory of Experimental
Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, N.
Y, G. N. Collins and DR.. Stockberger
of the department of agriculture,
Frank NJ. Surface, the Kentucky Ex-
pertinent station, and c. E. Saunders
the Canadian government.
The American delegates were told
often that the United xtates was the
only government that gives adequate
support to Investigators of this kind,
European inquirers and experiment
tors are for the most part working
out of their own resources. Monsieur
Phillip Vilmorin, in France of the
hereditary family Of seedsmen,. and
his brother Maurice, president of the
French Bontanfcal society, devote
much of their income to scientific in.
vestigation.
COLON, Panama, Oct 14.-Magni.
ficent is the word which might fit-
tingly describe the progress made on
the construction of the Panama canal.
The statement of Colonel George w.
Goethals, chief engineer of the canal,
that the canal would be finished in
September, 1913. or over one year
before the date previously announced
for it's inauguration, was at first re-
ceived with some hesitation. Now,
however, an examination of the CO.
lossal work that Is being rushed to
completion in Miraflores, Pedro MI
guel and Gatun, and the surprising
way the Culebra cut is advanced has
convinced the most. incredulous that