Railroads, in a future not far distant, must force certain industries
    to disappear forever, and modify several others, more especially those
    relating to the different modes of transportation in use around Paris.
    Therefore the persons and things which are the elements of this Scene
    will soon give to it the character of an archaeological work. Our
    nephews ought to be enchanted to learn the social material of an epoch
    which they will call the "olden time." The picturesque "coucous" which
    stood on the Place de la Concorde, encumbering the Cours-la-Reine,--