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not slee h all night for excitement and joy. not been long 
on their journey when the physician received the alarming news that the cholera 
had already its appe in a large Prussian village on the frontier 
the population of the village, and F. was soon surrounded by cholera patients, 
an unusually great percentage of whom died. The ravages of the cholera in this 
place finally abated, and F. went 
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Meanwhile F. found out that there existed in Berlin a kind of Polytechnic 
school, the Royal Gewerbe schule; in which young artisans, who showed an abil- 
ity for readily acquiring the physical sciences, we eive not only iree’ 
their mental powers. A small proportion of their number only were able’ 
avail themselves of the whole three years’ instruction, all the rest being dis- 
Advised by his physician to desist from any further exertions at this school, he. 
at the end of the first year, asked for his dismission, which was granted, accoDr” 
panied by a testimonial certifying to his “‘good and very good progress 12 al 
in the capreity of a traveling artisan (Handwerksbursche), pa 
of Silesia, Saxony to Frankfort, and down the river Rhine, working in sever# 
t learn a variety of handicraft more agreeable to him than those of vn 
tany While at New York he witnessed the arrival of the first ocean gee 
rs, the Sirius and t t Western. They were side-wheel steamer a, 
we led most nthusiastically by the people of oe st 
y crisis and panic of 1837 depressed the lamp manufacturing poegerer 
