one of his favorite parts of the show. Smith sends off each museum visitor by reciting the poem he learned when he was 12 years old, Rudyard Kipling's "When Earth's Last Picture is Painted."

He hasn't been able to remember the poem in its entirety lately and that "really bothers" him, Murders said.

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Smith started off by festooning lids with household items like buttons, but as his museum became more popular, fans began sharing historical relics with him.

Now, some lids feature pieces of the Berlin Wall, barbed wire from Auschwitz, Suddam Hussein's toilet and NASA's space shuttle Challenger.

But there's still one thing missing from Smith's toilet tenure. He has always wanted signatures from the San Antonio SpursCompany, to work as a switchman. He had been found physically *588 qualified for hire on April 5, 1976, by defendant's chief medical officer. In 1977, plaintiff became a fireman and, after examination, qualified to become a yard engineer. He had begun studying for his last series of examinations to become a fully qualified engineer when he was disqualified and taken out of service as a fireman in November, 1979, pursuant to defendant's policy that any insulin-dependent diabetic cannot be in train service. The reason for the policy is that an insulin-dependent diabetic may go into hypoglycemic shock and, if so, be rendered incapable of performing his or her employment responsibilities.
Although plaintiff discovered he had diabetes in 1976, he was not placed on insulin until 1978 or early