Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-08
EVERY TRADE, FAD AND GUT HAS ITS
 OFFICIAL ORGAN
MANY THERE ARE THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC NEVER
 HEARD TELL OF

i've, but nearly always interesting Co the curious. It would appear that the publication of freak" periodicals, magazines and journals, finds profit. able field throughout the world, inas. much as goodiy number of them have their birth in foreign countries, though the United States furnishes it's due quo ts.
 The first of the odd sheets devoted to the "interests of engaged couples ap- peared a few years ago in Paris, and while at first thought it might be sup. posed that its field would be quite linn ited, it nevertheless prospcrs. Agents in the service of this journal are em- ployed at various points in France col lecting items of interest to folks who have contracted to marry. In each is- sue there are set forth in the paper the names, addresses and other information concerning engaged couples. Each mai. den mention receives free subscrip- tion for limited period. The real ben eficiaries of this publication are the tradesmen taking the paper, inasmuch as they are able to approach the girl intending to marry with more or. less aliuring inducements in the way of ma terials for trousseaux, etc.
 Against the papers for the engaged there may be cited, as an effect, a jour nal for bachelors printed in the Uniteil States. This periodical was the idea of members of bachelors club in an eastern city, and its columns are given over to articles from the pens. of gen tlemen fond of argument in support of the blesedness of "The Single Life, ' which is, in fact, the name of the paper. A standing caption in this paper is a quotation from Rudyard Kipling, who, as bachelor, declared that Che tray. els farthest who travels alone.'
 The original sheet devoted exclusive ly to the interests of beggars was born in Paris. This paper, entitled L'l Bon Guide, affords daily complete list of the baptisms, weddings and fuIl- erals to take place in Paris on that day, in order that it's patrons may be w'll posted as to favorable localities whe,e- in to pursue the days "work."
 For begging letter writers Le Bon Guide publishes list of the addresses, arrivals and departures of travellers known to be of charitable dispositions.
 The beggars in London, too, have their organ, but it is not of so "high class' a nature as the Parisian publi- cation. The English Beggars Journal is a weekly and brides itself on the ex- elusive character of its information. It is unique in that it is writeen, not printed, by mimeograph, the paper employed being the coars brown varie- ty commonly used by the butchers and grocers in which to wrap their wares.
 There are lots of other papers for beggars published in various foreign countries, and in the United States, too, but the French and English sheets are remarkable by reason of their enor- mous subscription lists and for the un- questionable influence they exert.
 Another quer French journal which died not long ago, was Le Bien Etre, whose sole object for existence seemed to be an old-agen pension scheme. To subscribers who should die at the expi. ration of forty years, Le Bien Etre offered free burial.
 Le Courier des Baigneurs (Bathers Courier) is the product of well.known French seaside resort, It is printed on waterproof paper, the inducement to buy being predicted evidently on the idea that the bathcr may take his jour nal into the ocean with him and so en- joy its perusal while bathing.
 On the other side of the Pyrenees, the Madrilenes have their freak paper in the shape of The Luminaria, which, it is claimed, is printed in ink contain ing an amount of phosphorus which en ables the reader to peruse it in the dark.
 There are any number of medical journals in the world, but perhaps the only paper devoted exclusively to the dissemination of information touching a particular disease is that published in German city. This publication carries as title the German equivalent for rheumatism, and it is claimed that only specially qualified expect; arc permitted to contribute to it's columns.
 London is also the home of The Mon ey Lenders Gazette, the title of which sufficiently indicates it's raison d'ctrc. Similar publications are to be had in Vienna, Paris and Rotterdam.
 Publications obviously not of a par ticularly cheerful nature, are The Un- dertakers' Journal and The Hangman s Record, both published in the British capital. It is difficult to assign a req son for the latter, but as it is of re- speetable age ther must, of course, be demand for the grim sort of news 1t dispenscs.
 The New Moon, most appropriately named, is paper published in the United States by certain institution for the insane. If anyone supposes thst it's columns are devoid of interest for