Minute Workmanship.

MINUTE WORKMANSHIP .

ALL ages have produced by the indomitable perseverance of workmen objects so minute , and finished iu so exquisite a manner as to astound tho boholder . Watches have been marvellously fixed in finger-rings , a dinner-set with all its appurtenances placed in a hazel-nut , and a conch and four actually enclosed in a ohorrystone . Lilian spooks of ono Myrmecides , a Milesian , and of Callicrntes ,

a Lacedromoninn , tho first of whom made an ivory chariot so small and 80 delicately framed , that a fly with its wing could at tho same time cover it and a little ivory ship of the same dimensioup . Tho second formed ants and other little animals out of ivory , which were so small that their component parts were scarcely to be distinguished with the naked eye . He states also , that one of these artists wrote a distich

in golden letters , which he enclosed in the rind of a grain of corn . In Kirby ' s " Wonderful Museum , " notico is taken of an exhibition at the house of one Boveriok , a watchmaker in the Strand ( 1745 ) , at which were shown , among other things , tho following curiosities : — 1 st , the furniture of a dining-room , with two persons seated at dinner and a footman in waiting , the whole capable of being enclosed in a

cherrystone ; 2 nd , a landau in ivory , with fonr persou inside , two postilions , a driver and six horses , the whole fully mounted and habited , and drawn by a flea ; and 3 rd , a four wheel open ohaise , equally perfect and weighing only one grain . Another London exhibitor , about the samo time , constructed of ivory a tca-table fully equipped , with urn , teapot , oups , saucsra , & c ,

the whole being contained in a Barceloua filbert-shell . In the " Annual Register " of 1761 , it is stated that Mr . Arnold , a watchmaker in London , had tho honour to present His Majesty George III . with a curious repeating watoh of his own construction , Bet in a ring . Its sizo was something less than a silver twopence , it contained one hundred and twenty-five different parts , and weighed

altogether no more than five pennyweights aud seven grains . This species of mechanism , however , is by no means uncommon ; the Em . peror Charles V ., as well as James I . of England , are said to have had similar ornaments in the jewels of their rings ; and watches , a little larger perhaps , are not unfrequently set in ladies bracelets . " At Manchester , in 1816 , a mechanic made a wonderful little knife

which weighed but little over one pennyweight , and was provided with Bixteeu useful articles , viz : —three blades , a button-hook , saw , punch , and sorew-driver , corkscrew , hook and gimlet , two fleams , picker , tweezers , and two lancets . The whole length of the knife was but eleven sixteenths of an inch . In the "Meohanics Magazine" for 1845 , mention is made of a high

preasnro steam engine , the production of a watchmaker who occupied a stand at the Polytechnic Institution , so small that it stood upon a fourpetmy piece , with ground to spare . " It is , " says our authority , " the most curious speoiman of minnte workmanship ever seen , each parfc being made according to scale , and the whole occupying so small a space , that with the exception of the fly-wheel it might be covered

with a thimble . It is not simply a model outwardly , it works with the greatest activity by means of atmospheric pressure ( in lieu of steam ) , and the motion of tho little thing , as its parts are seen labouring and heaving under the influence , is indescribably curious and beautiful . " Mr . D . A . A . Buck , jeweller , of Worcoater , has , " says a Boston ,

U . S ., paper , " built the smallest engine in the world . It ia made of gold nnd silver , and fastened together with sorews , the largest of which is one eightieth of an inch in sizo . The engine , boiler , governor , and pumps stand in a space seven sixteenths of an inch square , and are five eighths of an inch high . Perhaps a better idea of its smallnesa will be convoyed by saying that the whole affair may be

completely covered with a tailor s thimble . Ihe engine alone weighs but fifteen grains , and yet every part is complete , as may be seen by a microscopic examination ; and it may be Bet in motion by filling the boiler with water , and applying heat , being supplied with all valves , & o ., to be found upon an ordinary upright engine . To attempt an estimate of its power would seem like rather small business , but for a

guess , a span of well-fed fleas would furnish more force if they wero properly harnessed aud shod . The little thing would tug away for several minutea if encouraged by a drop of water heated by the application of a burnt finger . " Anne Stnitter , mother of Lucas de Hecre , the Flemish painter and poet , who flourished during the reign of Elizabeth , once executed a

painting in miniature , with such diminutive neatness , that a grain of oorn wonld have covered the whole composition . The subject which she ohose for the display of her extraordinary powers waa a landscape , with a windmill , millers , a cart and horse , and passengers . Nearly a quarter of a century ago , Mr . ( afterwards Sir ) Joseph Whitwortb , addressed to the Scieuco and Arts Department the

following letter : — "Feeling the national importance of maintaining the position which England has reached in the manufacture of machiuory in genera ] , I desire to do as much ns may bo in my power towards effecting this object . I should , therefore , feel obliged if you would inform the Lord President of the Council that I am willing to deposit

in the South Kensington Museum , to be there perpetually preserved , three original true planes , and a measuring machine , or iu 3 trumeiit , demonstrating the millionth part of an inch ; and I propose subject to some conditions , to make sufficient endowment to provido for the delivery of lectures to expluin such instruments . " "Book of Rarities , " by Bro . EDWARD ROBERTS P . M .

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