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Show u TOPICS IN BRIEF. Tho Czar would like to be the Speaker Speak-er Cannon of the Douma. Houstan Chronicle. If the muck-rake did not exist. It would bo necessary to Invent it. New York Evening Post. Perhaps President Cassitt Is sorry now that he cut off those passes from tho congressmen. Detroit Free Press. Tho senate is rather insistently calling call-ing Mr. Burton's attention to tho cabalistic cabal-istic numeral 23. Newark News. President Roosevelt can hardly bo classed as "a man of clay," his principal prin-cipal constituent element being sand. Chicago News. t Tho war against tainted meat prom- u Ises to be considerably more offectivo than tho war against tainted money. 1 New York Sun. ' President Cassitt is inclined to bo defiant. So wore tho heads of some of tho big life-insurance companies at first. Chicago News. Among tho new papular songs wo it note tho refined ballad by G. F. Baer, entitled "Everybody Grafts but tho Reading." Chicago News. When Mr. Bryan hears that Licking county, Ohio, has indorsed him for the Presidency, he Is suro to bo reminded of something. Washington Post. Grover Cleveland boasts that ho never had a manuscript rejected by a publisher. Grover ought to try to write something Incog. Atlanta onstitu-tion. onstitu-tion. Tom Watson would feel at home in tho Russian Douma, as tho principal object of most of Its members appears to bo to find out what they they aro there for. Baltimore America" ti |