It is to be hoped that the new bell registers which have been introduced into some of the cars of the Union Railroad are not designed to be permanent. A ride from Harvard square to Boston under ordinary circumstances is tiresome enough, but when to all this is added the incessant clanging of this new register the ride becomes almost unbearable. And then it is decidedly embarrassing for a man to jump hastily from his seat to stop the car for a pretty young lady who may be sitting opposite to him and give the cord attaching to the register a tremendous jerk, thus calling down upon himself the wrath of the conductor, the ridicule of his fellow passengers and the scorn of the young lady in question. No, no! give us cold cars, slow horses, inattentive conductors and little straw, but in heaven's name remove the gong.
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