A cimera which is said to take fifty pho tographs per second is a French zorelty.
Among the newest physical training imple- ments is a small tread-mill for leg exercise.
A European clockmaker bas invented a clock that will run for ten yeres without winding,
A substitute for putta-pecha has been found in the aap of the kite or butter free of Africa.
Mics in large quantities has been discovered In British Columbla, near the head of the Teto Janne Pair.
'A recent invention is a cradle which rocks by clockwork mechanism and at the same time plays baby tunes,
Sun rots 100.000 miles in diameter have been measured, Tige enough to hold dozens of
such worlds as Quen
About two hundred dogs are sind every year by the University of Buffalo for purposes of phys'o'ogical experiment.
Scales are now made that will weigh the flame of candle or the smallest strand of hair plucked from the eyehraw..
A zivel, in the form of a tube, to be used bath as rivet and as a drainage way, to a late wrinkle in iron ship building.
Indicators for steam engines are now made of aluminium, since its light weight makes it very advantageous for this purpose,
A New England man has invented a railway. car brake, operated by electricity, which is claimed to be as effictive as the air-brake.
At Cherbourg, In France, an electrical canoe is in successful operation. It will run for twelve hours at the rate of early sight kro's an hour.
A new electric invalid chair has storage batteries under the seat. It can run at the rate of eight miles an bour and will last for fifty
miles.
Professor G. E. Wright claims to have dis covered a former ondet of the Great Lakes through Lake Nipissing and the Matawa river to The Ottawa:
• !)
A fire engine that does away with the use of horses and farces the water by means of power generated by storage battery, is a recent electrical invention,
A street car in Fitchburg, fitted with steel-ball bearings as an experiment, has been run for sever months without being oiled since it was fist put in service.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1893.
will yield enough magenta to color 500 yards of flannel, vermilion for 2,5f0yards, purine for 120 yards and allarine sufficient for 155 yards of red cloth,"
in
Aluminium horseshoes have been tiled one of the Finnish cavalry regiments, A number of homes were shodou one fore foot and gas kind foot with this metal, ordinary fron shoes being used on the other feet. At the end of six weeks, during which time the animals had been moving on a bard and stony road, it was found' that the alumiofum shoes had worn rather better than those of iron.
Le Yacht states that a French_yachtman, M. le Comte de Chabannes La Palico, has arranged to have a 10-ton yacht bollt of aluminium by the Sock é des Chantiers de la Loire. If the yacht had been built, most vessels of her class, with steel frame and wood es planks, her hull would weight 4,500 kilos, but the employment of aluminum reduces this to 2,500. Tila will be the first sen-going vessel
bullt of the new material.
The Berlin correspondent of the London Standard tells "of a new invention which claims absolutely to do away with smok from the combustion of coal. It has the great merit of simplicly. The coal is ground into powder and injected into the boiler by means of a Current of ab, when it immediately becomes ignited from a small fire near the mouth. Other corrents supply the air necessary for combustion, The dust burn in one coaliseous Intense fame, and not an atom escapes as smoke."
"No Uring germ of disease cap resist the antiseptic power of essence of clanamien for more than a few hours," is the conclusion announced by M. Chamberland as the result of prolonged recearch and experiment in M. Pasteur's laboratory, It is said to destroy microbes as effectively, li not as tapidly, as concilve sublimate. Even the scent of it is fatal to microbes, and M. Chamberland says a decoction of cinnamon should be taken freely by persona living in places affected by typhoid or cholera.
Adolphos Haensle and Augustus Will, two German clock makers, have just finished the most wonderful of all clocks, an astronomical and horological oddity that throws all previous) efforts in the abade." It shows the seconds and strikes the hours, quarters and misates, There has been invented a machine for cut-be idea! giring a calendar of days, weeks, ting tubes of paper for pill boxes. The oper. months and years up to the year 10,000. 11. ations are all automatic and the work is said to alco shows the solar system, the phases of the be rapidly performed.
moon, the revolutions of the earth and the zodiac, besides giving on its seventeen faces the correct time for Berlin, Prague, Munich, Berne, New York, Geneva, Boston, Paris, Metz, London, and on the large face in the centre the. time at the place where the clock is locked.
Cable dispatches are generally received at the rate of twenty to twenty-five words a minute. An expert opcrater on a land line sands about forty words in that time.
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If the expectations of a Cleveland Inventor are
Piston valves are inking the place of side valves in locomotives. By this device builders expect, with a perfect roadted, to ultimately attain arealized, says the New York Commercial speed of too miles per hour,
Aluminium tobacco pipes are about the latest Invention. The bowl is, however, lined with meerschaum; but the pipes are said to be lighter than those of the same size made el briar-root.
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Advertizer, the mode of travel and transportation may be changed in the near future. A. man nimed Gates han designed an elevated railroad to ron from Philadelphia to New York, to be built and controlled by Eastern capitalisin. The model | A recent application of aluminium to the represents a car suspended from an overhead frames of eye-glasses has attracted some atten-track and propelled by electricity. It bangs tion. The weight of the frame is almost imper- ceptible, yet the lenses are softer than without rims.
Coloring aluminium · bas, It & 11ld, been successfully achieved by Herr G. Wagner of Berlin. According to the process aluminium can be easily coated with other metals-nickel, illver and gold,
An improved process of extracting silver from its ores has been invented by a Chilean. It is especially ⚫pplicable for ores containing copper. The new method is based on the afflalty which It has for other metals,
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
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Hongkong Observatory, 23rd June, 1893,
HONGRONG REGISTER.
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Co-day's Advertisements.
TION COMPANY.
UNDER MAIL CONTRACT WITH THE AUSTRIAN
GOVERNMENT.
STEAM FOR
SINGAPORE PENANG, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID, BRINDISI, VENICE, FIUME,
AND TRIESTE.
(Taldng Cargo at the ugh rates to Calcutta, MADRAS, PERSIAN GULF, RED SEA, BLACK SKA, LEVANT and ADRIATIC PORTS).
THE
ninety-four she was married to a man aged one Company's Steamchip
hundred and five. Three children came of this union, but they had gray balr, no teeth, were stooped, yellow and wrinkled, decrepit is move- ment and could eat only bread and vegetables,
twenty feet above the earth. The journey from New York to Philadelphia, it is claimed, can be made in ittle more than balf an hour by this swinging, honylag electric bled. Mr. Gates bas had his electric car patented, and it is expected | AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA› to build this Eastern line and send the fitai train over the mid-air track within the year,
wer the mid trick timed by students of heredity that chlidren are apt to inherit not only the physical, mental and moral traits of their parents, but to be influenced by their age as well. Children born of very young father and mothers never attaļo só vigorous a growth of A recent invention la a new tupoof refrigerator | mind or body as those of older men and women, ear that can be us for twenty days without | wbila children of old people are born old. One re-icing. It is charged with ice and certain of the most surprising cases in medical history chemicals, the combination maintaining & is that of Marguerite Cribrowan, who died in freezing temperature during this long period. 1763, aged one hundred and eight years, When
A recent invention is a means of operating Indicators for streets on trolley Haes. At the street crossings are placed devices on the wires that break current indicator cirealt, thus op-rail-g the indicating apparatus on the car,
The Government has been recently installing The famous Iron Gates of the Danube ilver, electric stamp-cancelling machiner, having a which bad long been a har to the development caraci y of 3 oon letters per hour, in all the post of the commerce along that famous' waterway, offices of consequence in the country wherever were successfully removed last year. The great electric curients could be conveniently obtained. | Tasau dam, which is said to be the ligest Paper-mache is finding more extended use for piece of engineering work in the world, was niso sunken pipels and tellef ornaments, as well as completed during the past year. It is situated for figures in the round, Its comparitive lightness | sixty-five miles north of Bombay and is two being a highly apprrclatire quality. It admits miles long, with a breast_11ß feat high and 100 of a most beautiful finish, atpalat strongly in its feet thick at the base. Twelve thousand men favor,
were continurusly employed in the construction
"VINDOBONA". Captain P. Mersa, will be despatched as above on WFDNESDAY, the 5th July.
Cargo will not be received on board after 3 P.M. prior to date of sailing,
For further Information as to Passage and Freight, apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.
Agents, Hongkong, 23rd June, 1893-
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE
"ARKATOON APCAR" ・・ having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed, that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
We are accustomed, to think of metals as ❘ of this colosul work. Somewhat less impoil-g, incombustible; but the contrary is the case, but an englanting work of greater importance,THE Steamship With the exception of the so-called poble was the completion of the Vyrawy squrduct to marsIs-gold, silver, platinum and a faw | supply Liverpool with waler. The aqueduct others-all metals burn, or absorb oxygen when sixty-eight miles in length, and at ons place beated sufficiently in the air.
dips under the Mercy river in a tunnel that in tald to be a marvel of engineering sk!!).
enormous
An electric engine has been derigned for ordinary passenger traffic on a sub-city line la The storage battery has been perfected London which admite of its motor being revolved | sufficiently to admit of fis uss in European cities, when the train is at'a g'andstill. It operates on and the time cannot be very remote when li wid A central-rail system, and many economical be brought to the point where it will satisfy the advantages are claimed for it.
requirements of American towns and cities. Its Pitch-nine beams will shrich in thickness | Introduction on this side of the Atlantic will, from 184 inches to 18Į ; spruce, from 8 Inches however, tender antiquated an to 8; while pine from 12 inches to 117; yellow electrical plani, constructed at high cost. The pine, a trifle less, Cedar beams will shrink | electrical manufacturing companies will find from width of 14 leches to 131; dm, from 11 themselver obliged to largely revolutionize the to 10, and oak, from 13 to 11a.)
character of their businças, an outleck from The results of recent experiments made in which they derive very little satisfaction. The Berlin by Professor Uffelmann show that cholera charge agulant the. General Electric Company bacill remain alive in water from one to six | is, that it is letting no opportunity go by to days, in butter six days, in cabbage three days, acquire storage-battery patente, not, however, for on poutal cards twenty hours after drying, while the purpose of affording the public improved on silver colas aid copper they die in half an facfifiles, but to perpetuste the trolley system. From an economic point of view, this policy can bror.
The Unton Medicals gives a short account of best be characterized as peony wise and pound the Pleurotus lux, a fungus that takes its foolish. specific name from its property of glowing in the dark, even for twenty-four hournaler It has been plucked. It has lately been carried to Europe from Tabit, where the women use it us in adornment in bouquets of flowers.
A writer in Nature ways that the total solar eclipse of April, 25-16, 1893, was not only one of the longest of the century, but was the last of the century from which we are likely ket any additions to our knowledge of solar Sea fowls' eggs eave one remarkable pecall physics. The longest duration of totality of this arity, they are nearly conical, in form, broad at eclipse was but minutes forty-six seconds, and the base and sharp at the point, so that they as the path of the moon's shadow lies to a great will only roll in a circle. They are fald on the extent on lard, there was sconsiderable choice bare edges of high rocks, from which they would of stations with long durations of totality, almost surely roll off save for Lala happy provision Two expeditions were sent from England; one to Africa, the other to Brazil, the expenses baing of natura
Nickel is a modera metal. It was not in use defrayed by the Royal Society. The Valled Bor known of till 1715. It has now largely taken States sent sa expedition to Chile. The Esiean the place of silver in plated wes, and as an des Longitudes, Paris, sent a complete expedition alloy with steel it fa saperior to any other metal, to Joel, In Africa. At present we have not board lor is not only non-corrosivi itself, but it of any Italian expedition, but it is hoped that Pro transfers the same quality to steel; even when fessor Tacchiał was able to make arrangements combined as low as 3 per cent, it prevents oxide to observe the eclipse,
The curing of talecy by the surgeon's uclanca The latest novelly la the use of electricity, has | is another and most wonderful irdrance by the been devised in Onswa. The electric current is profession. It has been found that a frequent utilized for the abstraction of heat from cast-iron cause of imbecility is the failure of the skull to blocks, until their temperatura is reduced below expand with the growth of the brain, in the in the freezing polet. The blocks are then used as fant. In infancy the skull,' to' be perfect, must substitutes for ice.. The cost of refrigeration by fall to solidify at those Jefuls or natural sutures this method is said to compare arombly with that sepants its originally solid parts. These soft places turn too early into bove like the rest the cost for natural or manufactured ice..
Paper was employed in many new ways of the skull and the, brala cinzot expand, The during the past twelve months, Among the surgeons of today restore nature to its power to first crop of the year's inventions was a form of act as it should by re-opening the skull eliber at bel:ing made of paper, an arrangement that is his natural Jelots or by cutting out a part of it on said to possess some valuable features. Paper dither side. Almost directly in a few days the tubes for insulating purposes have won a place entire behavior of the child alters, and it beglas --in the electrical sold, while puffined paper to display intelligence. The development of the for matches is a notable Swedish (spention, brain, no longer arrested, seems almost fastantly "If a pound of coal is subjected to a dry die to take advantage of lia liberty. Thus Idlots, fillation and the product and redduals treated for ages doomed to be a 'cara: and a sorow to chemically by the processes for obtaining the parents and to the world, are transformed into well-known cral (ar colors," says the Æge of men and women of like fatelligence to cur owni Steel of St. Louis “the sun posád so, trust) 187, 14 Ju
Cargo Impeding the discharge or remaining Consignees' risk and expense into the Godowns on board after the 25th instant, will be landed at
of the Wancha! Warehouse and Storage. Com- pany, Limited, Wanchal.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
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to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
TUESDAY, the 27th June; 1893, AT2.30 P.M.
ON
at his SALE Rooms, Queen's Road, SUNDRY FURNITURE, &c., belonging to the Estate of the late Major-General A. H. A. GORDON,
Comprising
TAPESTRY and CRETONNE COVERED CHAIRS and SOFA, ROUND 118 SQUARE TABLES, CARD TABLE, DESKS and ORNA MENTS.
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FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHÓW.
HE Company's Steamship
THE
HAITAN
Captain Goddard, will be despatched for the above "Forts on SUNDAY, the 25th instant, at Daylight.
·
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For Sale.
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SEA BOOTS In all Sizes.
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TH
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OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND. THIS commedlegs and well appointed HOTEL, situated at a height of 1,150 feet above, sea-level, having been Leased by the Proprietors of the "VICTORIA HOTEL," NOW OPEN and will be run in conjunction with their HOTEL in Queen's Road, thus enabling Residents.
BOARD and LODGING, Per Day 1.50 them to offer special inducements to Visitors and
Pore BLACKBERRY BRANDY and fresh BOARD TIFFIN and DINNER), PaĮ Consignments of BARTLETT
SPRING
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Commission Merchants,
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Yokohama, rath August, 1892.
T
FOR SALE.
HE SCHOONER
5
"MONTIARA,”
AS BUK NOW LIES IN KOWLOON BAY. Length ..............................................................75 feet. Bem mei......................................17 feet. Depth of hold...
*........... 71 feet.
T16
Registered Tonnage (Owing to recent 75 tons,
the carrying capacity of the Montlara has been increased to about 20 tons dead weight.)
The Montlara was built in Singapore, is most solidly constructed of teak throughout, with iron. ❘ wood «frames, has recently been thoroughly overhauled under experienced European superin. tendence, and is now in excellent condition. She is a very fast mailer and a most suitable versel for the Canton kersions trade, or would make a first-class Ughter.
For Particulars as to Price, &c., apply to
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„Hongkong, 1st May, 1893,
FOR SALE.
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THE ENGINES AND BOILER OF THE CHINESE GUNBOAT "CHOP CHEUNG,"
AS THY LIE AT ABERDEEN DOCKS.
Td by Messrs. Louis & Co., of Engines of the Choß-cheung__ were
Wanchal, and are of the Compound Inverted
Month
Fongkong, 24th March, 1893,
$35.00
1370
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`OMFORTABLY FURNISHED or UN-
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One perann, per day...........................$ 4.00 One person, per week umuduminor 15.00 One person, one month.
.870 to 80.00 Married couple (occupying and room) per
day
novinarka.
FURNISHED ROOMS, with Board and Married couple (occupying one room) per
Table Accommodation.
Apply to
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HE MIIKE COAL is a.
THE
BITUMINOUS COAL
of dark reddish colour. For steam purposes it has been pronounced to be the best and the most economical of all the Japanese Coals. Its export is increasing yearly, and the opinions expressed by several of the largest regalar consumer are in testimony of the excellent qualities of this coal,
* Attention is called to the following advantages to Ships' Owners and Captains, whe coal their bankers direct from the Undersigned :—
FRESHNESS of the coal UNIFORMITY of quality," FREEDOM from Impurities.
Supply in any quantlly on shortest notice. Quick despatch.
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YARD, WANCHAL
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Hongkong, 24th June, 1881.
Cylinder Direct-Acting Surface Condensing type,OREGON Cylinders 201 and 38" dia. with a stroke of 26, The Crank Shaft Is 61" dia. at the Crank pin and y día, at the journals. The H.P. Fiston Rod ́is, 3" and, the LP. 31" dia. The Piston and Connecting Rod bolts are a dis, Air Pump 141" dia, by 14 stroke, Single Acting Circulating Pump 8" dia by 13" stroke, and Double Acting Feed and Blige Pump (one each) 3" dia, by 13" stroke.
These Engines have been very little used and are in thoroughly good order.
The Boller is of the Horizontal Multitubular type, with three Furnaces and vertical Dome on top. It dia, is loft, a" by git, 10" long, external measurements; Famates, aft. 7′′ dia.: Dome, 4” din. by aft high; Tubes, 184 in number by 44"
ez dia. It fain fairly good condition, having recently undergone considerable repals, and would last in sctive service for over five years.
The Engines and Boiler can be inspected on Application to the Superintendent at Aberdeen Docks,
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Messrs. Kelly & Walali, Limited,
Shanghal,” ~ (Mestre, Kelly & Walsh, Limited,
Yakohama. BANGKOK The "Bangkok Times" Office, SINGAPORE...Messrs. Kelly & Walal, Limited. PARIS and
Messrs. Amédée Prince & Co. LONDON ...)
a to "THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "OFFICE,
Pedder's Hil, A Honskene, goth January, 1893.
KING WO CHEONG. COAL MERCHANTS, SHIP'S COMPRA DORES, STEVEDORES, &C.
Have for Sale a cargo of pure AKAIKI COAL
R
**E GODOWN, and ex SHIP.
the
Auction Mart, 17, Praya CentraL TO-MORROW (SATURDAY) the 24th June, 1893, AT 2.30 P.M. Comprising
QEST LIQUORS procurable In the Market, BEST
LITY. Come and see how we have transformed good ACCOMMODATION and CIVI-
WILLIAM WATERS, Proprietor, Hongkong, 17th March, 1893.
(179 THE WESTERN HOTEL,
·GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, JEWEL- LERY. MARINE GLASSES. OPERA GLASSES, TRAVELLING TRUNKS, DRA- PERY, LADIES DRESS GOODS, GENTLE- MEN'S HOSIERY, SUMMER TWEEDS, WINES, SPIRITS, BEER, CIG RS, SEVERAL INRICKSHAS and SUNDRIES.
On view Saturday AM.
AE SKEELS & Co,
Auctioneers & Valustors. Repository Sale Rooms,
ty, Prays Central,
•Hongkong, aand June, 1803
07
· PUBLIC AUCTION
JEWELLERY, &C.
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THE Undersigned has received instructions
to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
TO-MORROW
„(SATURDAY), the 24th June, 1893, commencing at 2,30 P.M),
at his SALE ROOME, DUDDELL STREET,
QUANTITY OF for account of the concerned),
JEWELLERY, DIAMOND STUDS, DIAMOND and other
Comprising
RINGS, SCARE-PINS, GOLD ALBERT
A
QUEENS ROAD WEST,
OLD "BEN" PRESIDES, QUIET AND COMFORTABLE HOME
FOR MEN OF THE MERCANTILE MARINE,
The very beat LIQUORS and ACCOMMODA TION. They come as Strangers but leave as Friends,
BEN, FRANKLIN TAYLOR
Hongkong, 28th March, 1893.
Proprietor.
To be Let.
TO LET.
(0.2, SEYMOUR TERRACE.
(389
NTHIRD FLOOR in No. 6, Queen's Road.
ROOMS in Collega Chamberk, No. 4, OLD BAILEY STREET. OFFICES in Victoria Buildings.
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Hougkona, 23rd June, 1803.
TO LET.
FFICES in Praya Central, above Mosers.'
Douglas Laprak & Co.'s Offices.
"THE WILDERNESS," in Caine Road, OFFICES. First and Second FLOURS of No.
4. Queen's Road Central, over the Bank of Chia, Japan and Straits, Limited.
Large
Elgin Street, Peel Street,
Now, 11 & 12, COOMBE ROYAL Furnished House at.Magazine Gap.
NEW HOUSES In and Staunton Street,
Nos. 45, RIFON TERRACE--Bonham
pled by the New Oriental Bank (in Liquidation.) Road.
No. 7. PRAYA CENTRAL, a present occue
No
-4, BLUE BUILDINGS, WERE
FLOORS and GODOWNS is Blue Buildings, No. 1, BOWRING VILLA at Magarīns Gāp -Cheap Rental
GROUND and FIRST FLOORS of No. 5
MJ W BOYD, Superintendent at CHAINS BROOCHES and EARRINGS. Kowloon Docker, reports that AKAIKI GOLD BRACELETS, GOLD and BILVER RESULTS has any Japanese Cost he has ever d COAL GIVES TEN PER CENT, BETTER WATCHES, &c.
SESTONE SILVER TEA SET, MUSIC BOXES, Shelley Street.
TERMS OF SALE --Cash on delivery.
·GEO. P.'LAMMERT,
Aucsioneer. Hongkong, and June, 1893.
Fortfall particulars as to price, bey
MING VO CHONG
15, Prays Central ary, 1893,
- No. 10, OLD BAILEY. Apply to unde THE HONGKONG LAND. INVESTMENT -
"&_AGENCY" Co., Ltd.'
́alth June, 1895.
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