MECHANICAL TASTE.
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We are often surprised that mechanics do
not pay more attention to the art of design
indeed, knowledge of every kind is valuable to
them. Sir Richard Arkwright was, we be-
lieve, barber, but having turned his attention
to machinery, and getting hold of hint in
vented the spinning jenny and amassed a for
tune. Wedgewood's pottery came first into
notice in consequence of the elegant shapes
and designs of his vases, cups, &c. A poor
German mechanic rose to wealth in N. York
city, by being the first TO introduce iron rail
ings of beautiful patterns, in place of the plain,
old-fashioned straight rail pointed at the top.
There is Yankee now making his fortune by
a cheap process of map coloring, which a little
chemical knowledge suggested to him. We
know man who has improved the ordinary
machine for plating whip-lashes, and applied
it to the making of stay laces, SO that he can
manufacture these articles for price indefi-
nitely below any rival. So, too, in common
house building the carpenter, in newly set
tied district, who understands how to erect a
graceful dwelling, will soon carry off the bu.
siness of those who are contented with the old
clumsy style. Who would not prefer win
dow screen prettily painted, TO an old.fash-
ioned Chinese blind? Yet the one is not dearer
than the other In word, taste and know.
ledge, when brought to bear on the mechanic
arts, will always carry off the palm from stu.
pidily and ignorance. Think Of this, young
mechanics Meals Saturday Gag.