Death Finally Overtook Old Sam

Okl S-am Wooster has passed over to the majority and will aever be sgen more about our streets. He was a qtteer eïiaracter, evidcntly lost to all pi ld;' or i-cr.s of refin ment, and i o:imed about thls and adjoining counties, making Jiis headquarters mauy years at the Livingston eouniy poor house, where he died recently, having burdened the World with his pres emee 90 years. He liad been in this and adjacent countdes aB tar back as the mpiuory oí the oldest inhabitant extends and was probaWy known to more people 1han any other man who luid abode anioiis1 ik. He was ornee a biiuht young man, well eduCAted, of good mtellect, but there is a tradition ,that disappointnment in love in eai-ly Ufe made liiin despondent and for all these years he has led the Ufe oí a tramp. Ypeilanti Commercial lias tltis to say oí the lew telephone cxchange wfiich is being put in in that city ; "The automatic telephone exch, a hcarty Avelcome from the peopl liere who have long tlred oí the extoninns of the Bell telephone interest. The exchange will be in operatton in a short time, and Ypsilanti will be the initial point of opération in thls state. Ann Arbor will be speedily mcludcd in the same exchainge, and it is intlmated that we may ultimately have Detroit on the Bame terme. It is a wonderful thlngi that a subsarlber may go to his instrument and ring tlie number of any subsc-riber, and so come instantly int o eommunication with that subseriber and with no one else, without the intervention of any operator, the whole operation being entirely automatic, and no central office, more than a self-actlng switch board, belng required. The rentáis are a third lower than those of the old line."