TALMAGE ON HIS MUSCLE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 89, 14 June 1879, Page 3

TALMAGE ON HIS MUSCLE.

f When Sydney Smith spoke of the sTimbuctoo cannibals lunching oIF a cold he little thought that ono day Ijthe same custom would prevail in Brooklyn,; but so Mr. Tulniaga told the rowing imen last night in his talk about muscle 'mid good cheer, for in referring to his brother ministers he said : —" \f6 get a bulky liver, wo lose .our temper, and piust have something for dinner, and if ■wo can't get anything else, i/ro take a neighbouring clergyman.'' And 4u his hasty character sketches ho lot the cloth into some secrets of his own life whioh it eon do them no possible harm to know and copy. He belonged to a clergyman's base-hall club in Philadelphia and played very Bteadily, vastly to the edification of the neighbouring small boy*. , Ho rowed on the Possoio morning, noon, and night for years; he has long exercised in the gymnasium, and has never been sick * minute in his life. Indeed, he pronounced the gymnasium "away ahead of Plantation Bitters and cataplasms" and all other cure-alls, and well added, " What are all your brains worth if you havnn't health to carry them ?" and " A man who don't know how to ploy don't know how to work." Mr. Tannage has broken out in s Held now where, if he /ollows up his work rigorously and sue-

feeds in infusing inU> bin brother clergy - inen some of liU own fondness for daily active bodily aurrtsjn. lie cannot fiiil to Jo great good botli to them mid indirectly to tlioir hearers. Canon riingslcy shewed hi* llriti-.li Mlnw piamhwa now well it. would pay them to have tight, well-knit bodies, kept in good repair. Now let Canon Talmage do the >;««.■ [or our ministers, young and old, and he will be astonished at the good cheer he will Ui'ig to a class who are always the better for it, and seldom have enough of it-New York H.rald.