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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



A Frandnlent Benefaction. The tricks 



of fraudulent schemers arc endless, and are 

 marked by the greatest craft, so that even 

 the most wary are sometimes taken in by 

 them. There came to us some months ago 

 what purported to be the honest proceed- 

 ings of a national society " The Fruit and 

 Vegetable Growers' Association of the 

 United States." Among the " Transactions " 

 was the approval of an offer, by the invent- 

 or, of freedom to make and use a fruit- 

 evaporator, said to be superior to any ever 

 before devised. Trusting to the honest ap- 

 pearance of the item, we noticed it as a 

 public good, and the notice appeared in our 

 last number. \Vc are now informed, by 

 Mr. Oscar C. Gibbs, editor of the "Farmers' 

 Review," Chicago, in a note, for which we 

 thank him, that the whole affair, including 

 the society and the evaporator, is fraudu- 

 lent. He writes : 



D. Appleton <e Co. : 



Gentlemen: In your "Monthly" for April, 

 on page 862, I notice an article entitled " A 

 Fruit-Evaporator for the Public," purporting 

 to present the proceedings of a meeting held 

 at Columbus, Ohio (date not given), at which 

 was offered to the "Fruit and Vegetable 



