PEOPLE YOU KNOW.

Otago Witness, Issue 2369, 27 July 1899, Page 48

PEOPLE YOU KNOW.

No. 2.— THE POSTMAN. A rural postman writes: — ."I desire to add 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 lash eleven months, and I believe that I can do my work with less fatigue since I hare used ' it. I "can honestly recommend to my fellow • postmen Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa for its sustaining qualities." Of late years many new manufactures, rejoicing in a multiplicity of names, have been brought before tho 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 which only tt, few years back was unheard of has now become one of the most popular beverages of the people. Merit, and merit alone, is what is claimed . for Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa, and the. proprietor^ are prepared to send to any reader who names • the Otago Daily Times (a postcard will do) a - dainty sample tin of Dr Tibbles's Vi-Coesa free and post-paid. There is no magic in all this. It is a plain, honest, straightforward offer. It is done to introduce the merits cf Vi-Cocoa into every home. Dr Tibbles's ViCocoa, as a concentrated form of nourishment and vitality, is invaluable; nay, more than this, for to all who wish to face the strife and battle of life with greater endurance and more sustained exertion, it is absolutely indispensable. Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa, in Sid packets and Is Id and 2s 2d tins, can be obtained from all chemists, grocers, and stores, or from Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa, Limited, 269 George street, Sydney. ____»_

Half the ships in the world are British. The best of them can be converted into ships of war in 48 houra. The American Army Board is investigating the Cuban claims for damages, which amount in value to 450,000 dollars. Of this sum ifc has allowed 8500 dollars. Among the claims rejected are one for the rent of the battle- - fields and another for the disfigurement o£ fields used temporarily as burial places for soldiers.