The Paupaek ercelc in Pike county. Pennsylvania, is the dwelling-place of a monster more wonderful tliau the sea serpent, if one can believe the stories told by people in the vicinity. They describe fhe boast as having a head, like an ape and square shoulders like a human being. From the shouldei’s of tho creature there extend legs or arms, which terminate ip great claws. The hotly of the monster, which is fully six-feet in length, is of a reddish-brown tint, very like that of a lizard, and terminates in a tail like that of a fish. The creature's body is bare of any covering, but about the head and neck is a mauo of reddish hair. It is needless to say that the comity is excited over the strange aninpd4 Variousmrties suiT^ntu\ tho creek each day ill }dp,es of capturing the beast, but up p. the present time their endeavors . lave not been erowued with success.