Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-07
Historical Expeditions.

That history repeats itself is an ancient truism. It is however, interesting to note how many great events have been duplicated, as it were by shadowy limitations, and how many novelties are but thew toots i e. tunes) on auld horns" as King Jamie ex- pressed it. As years pass away the imita- tions frequently pass into obscurity. Every one has heard of Charlotte Corday, but few people remember Cecile Renault, the young girl who attempted to follow in her footsteps. This young woman presented herself repeat edly at the house of Robespierre, urgently en- deayoring to gain admittance to him; but Mara.'s fate had probably made his colleague suspicious, and the police searched a parcel Cecile carried. It contained two knives, and from this and other circumstances there appears little doubt that the young girl shared Charlotte Corday's enthusiasm, as she eventually did her fate Cecile Renault was guillotined on the charge of an intention to assassinate.
 Joan of Arc is a familiar historical charae- ter; but only vague memory survives of that ''woman of Berri, named Catherine" who at the same time as the maiden of Dom- remy was Urging her father to assist her in her mission" gave out that she also had "beheld visions of fair ladies with crowns of gold, who bade her go through France seek ing subsidies and men-at-arms for the Dauphin." This s'Catherine' never appears to have gained the belief of her neighbors, in spite of her promises that her fair ladies' would "reveal hidden treasures" to her fol- lowers and she is now only remembered as a kind of feeble shadow of the famous Maid of Orleans.
 If Fuller is to be believed, one of the most curious instances of this kind of historical repetition occurred in the thirteenth century It is stated that so universal was the crusad- ing enthusiasm at this era, that in 1213 no less than 30,0O0 children set out for the Holy Land. This ''Child's Crusade" was organ ized by two worthless monks who desioned to sell their deluded victims as slaves in Africa. According to the story, nearly all the ships containing the young enthusiasts were wrecked off the coast of Italy. A few vessels reached Africa, where the unhappy children were sold as slaves and carried into the interior of the country some of the ships were driven into the port of Genoa. where some of the young Crusaders were rescued and restored to their parents. Two merchants of Marseilles are said to have been executed for complicity in this crime
 Few inventions or ingenious contrivances are absolutely new. It is not long since there was an account in the papers of 8 sue eessful cure effected at one Of the London hospitals by checking an apparently fatal hemorrhage from place where it was impos sible to apply bandages. The medical stu dents took it in turn to keep the wound closed by the pressure of a finger, relieving each other at Intervals throughout the day and till the place healed over. This contri- vance was mentioned as novelty; but the same treatment was successfully practised over two hundred years ago, when the Prince of Orange (''Silent William was wounded in the neck by an assassin, Jaun Jaureguy It was impossible to apply bandages to stop the bleeding without suffocating the patient, but young surgeon named Botalli applied the same method of gentle pressure by fin- ger, and saved the Princes life.