Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

The director of the German theater at Buda Pesth has begun a civil suit against the King of Saxony for the payment of $1,500 owed him by one of the King’s officers. > “Cy” Sulloway, one of the newly elected members of the House from New Hampshire, is a captain in the Salvation Army, and married a Salvation Army lassie in Boston a few years ago. He is six feet, six inches tall, and is said to be an earnest and fluent talker. King Oscar, of Sweden, who is said to’be a good musician and singer, has composed a new symphony. The Queen of Belgium is said to be an excellent harp player. William T.Adams, “Oliver Optic,” who is now seventy-three years of age, has lived in Dorchester, Mass., for thirty years, and during that time has written 126 booksand 1,000 newspaper stories. How he came to adopt the pen name of “Oliver Optic” he relates under protest, for he says he has told the story about two thousand times. “Some time before the war,” he says, “there was a play at the Museum in which there was a burlesque character named Dr. Optics. The name struck me as appropriate, and to some doggerel verses which I wrote shortly after for a weekly society paper I signed the name of Oliver Optic, M. D., member of Mutual Admiration So I ciety. I then applied the name to books, which had a great sale. I had gotten tired of the name, and asked Mr. Lee, my publisher, if we couldn’t get rid of it. ‘ No, he could not think of that, it had become too popular. My assumed name had gotten the start of me, and I had to hang to it.’*