John?!H. Eeed has been the gas-man of Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, for 6^ years, and has never missed a pe'rfocmance in all .that time. He is somewhat.eccentric, and in his will is the following provision :—" My head shall be severed' from my body, and my body shall be placed in a vault, but the head shall be taken, to the Walnut Street . Theatre, ,there to be used as the skull in ' Hamlet;' and I do bequeath my head to the said ,Walnut Street Theatre for that purpose/ A man may smoke, or drink, or take snuff,-till-he is unable to pass away*his time wijjhout it,, not to mention, how our delight -in any particular study, art, or science, rises r and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon , it. Thus, what was at first an exercise, beconres' at length an entertainment.— Addison. '
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3210, 3 June 1879, Page 4
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