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Show Hawk's Fight for Young. When Christian Lchnels, superintendent superin-tendent of the Egg Harbor cemetery, entered the grounds recently he heard a noise in one ot the lots surrounded by cedars. Investigating, he was attacked by a large chicken hawk, which was feeding feed-ing five young ones. With no weapons to protect himself, Lehneis was compelled com-pelled to flee, hut he came to town and got his gun. When he returned the hawk and Its young had disappeared. Later in the afternoon he again came across the hawk family, and tho old bird charged him again, but this time he was prepared and killed it The hawk was a large specimen, i measuring four feet across the wings. Egg Harbor City Correspondence Philadelphia Record. . Preserving Flour. Much Interest has been shown of late by the army and navy authorities ' in a new method of preserving flour by means of compression. With hydraulic hy-draulic pressure apparatus the flour Is squeeavd into the form of bricks, and experiments are reportod to have shown that ths pressure destroys , all forms of larval life, thus preserving the flour from the ravages of Insects, while it Is equally secure from mold. Three hundred pounds of compressed I flour occupy the same space- as 100 pounds of flour in the ordinary state. |