PEOPLE YOU KNOW.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11797, 28 July 1900, Page 4

PEOPLE YOU KNOW.

No. 2.—THE POSTMAN.

A rural postman writes:—"l desire to arid this unsolicited testimony to the sterling- qualities of Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa.. lam a rural postman, and exposed to all kinds of weather. I have used Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa daily this last eleven months, and I believe that I can do my work with less fatigue since I have used it. I can honestly recommend to my fellow postmen Dr Tibbles's Vi-Copoa. for its sustaining qualities.'.' Of late years many new manufactures, rejoicing in a multiplicity of names, have been brought before the public notice, but there are none which have bounded into favour so readily as has Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa. Throughout the country its sales have increased with great rapidity, and an article winch only' li few years back was unheard of lias now become one of the most popular beverages of the people. Merit, and merit alone, is what is claimed [or Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa, and the proprietors are prepared to send to any reader who names the Otago Daily Times (a .postcard will do) a . :lainty sample tin of' Dr'Tibbles's Vi-Cpj-ja, ! Free"and post-paid. There is no magic.in all | this. It is a t>lain, 'honest, straightforward I offer. It is clone to introduce the merits cf Vi-Cocoa into every home.' Dr Tibbles's' ViCocoa, as a concentrated form of nourishment ; md vitality, is invaluable;, nay, more than i this, for to all vyho wish to face the strife'and '■ battle of life witn" greater endurance and more ■ sustained exertion,' it is absolutely indisisen- | sable. ~ ! Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa, in B^d packets ana ,;, Is Id and 2s 2d tins, can ba obtained from -til j chemists, grocers, and stores, or from Dr Tib- ! bles's Vi-Cocoa, Limited, 269 George street, j Sydney. ' . |

A bird's nest lias been found in England in the middle of an occupied beehive. A pair of great tits, near Ltidlbw, last' spring, built' their, nest and laicj 12 eggs in a vacant space imong the combs of a large "beehive, with the swarm in full syving of honey-gathering upon 1 ill sides of'them.' Both'birds rind bees went i in and out by the same entrance, and neither ' leomed to object in the least to tlie presence of ;he other, as tlie bees were making honey fast;' md when the hive was opened 12 eggs were iound in the nest.