Sarah Payson Parton--"fanny Fern."

The New York Tribune paysthe followng tributo to lbo ineinory ot' thu once auious " Fanny Fern." whoso death has een announeed by Tclegraph : Boorn at Portland, Maine, in 1811, she oenis to have passed through asoniowhat tormy and cloudy girlhood and woinanlood, and passed into a mature life before sho made an eutfanoe into the field of literature. Tlio father of Sara Willis was a 'oundor of tlic Ptliüan lieeorder, a reiigous journal published in Boston ; and of Youlh't Uompanivn, printed in tho game city. The mothèr of tho Willis ohildren, íathaniel, Richard, and Jane, isdesoribed as a large-bruincd, great-bearted woinan )f most lovublo chüiacter. Sho was edu■atcd at Hartford, Connocticut, by -Miss ('alhariua Boechor, and was addicted to iiischoivous and coinioal escapades. - Whilü yet young and soon aft-cr leaving school, she marriod Mr. Kldridge, of Bos011. After the: birth of throo uhildren she was leí't a widow and in BOOiewhat .■mbarrasscd circurostances. Of these itraita came her lirst literary venturo, and n 18A1, she offered an essay signed ': Fanny Forn" to one of the literary weeklies of Boston. It was accepted, and aoceptable, for tho great reading public immediately domanded more, and "Funny Pena" grew into fume and favor. These eaflets were frathored into a volume with ;he title of " Fern Leaves" and had a reat sale, no lees than 75,000 copies of :he book baring been sold. "Little Ferns for Fanny's Iittlc Fiicüds," had a fair sak', and a second series of the " Leaves" ■ ■[ a vry lf ge odition. In 1854, lier íirst novel, "Btith Hall," appeared ; it was n ot a genial book, and over Itsfamily ruvulations and ullusions a goneroua charity draws a veil of forgetfuluess. "Roso Clarke," l'ublished in in lf?07 was a moro sunny worlc, aub couimandeu a wider circle of readers than even tho uuhappy notorioty of its ijredecessor had attraeted. Tlie two novéis were tho only ones which "Fanny Fcrn" ever publislied ; they provokcd ïnueli critioism, and word icad by thousands who sought in their pagea tho saine grace and vivacity which liad been the oharms of her loss protentious writing. In 1846 tho subject of this skotoh was marriod to Mr. Jamas I'arton, A this city, the bxilliant and eii'cctivo historieal wriser and essayist. As a writer of brief sketches md esesys for the weekly presa sho excelled ; and in tho production of these shi! wm iiidomitable in industry, fgrtilo in resource and boundleps in patienco. She has sliown hor strnggling sisterhood wliat woman can do with the pon ; for, in spiteof numberless obstados she won hereelf a placo in curront litorature, ii genorous in come, and many honest frionas fsnd admirers. Her life was net: always sunny, hut its closing years wero unclouded save by bodily ills; and, after a long, busy wrestle with lil'e's prob - lems, she sh èps well at last. ui -- -- - A Oermnn physiolopist asserts that animals which aré being fafteued, particnluily oxi'ii, s!ionld not bo encouragod to drink Inuch water for tl;e roason that, as bas ixTii i'ound by experitnont, "the absorption of water gencratescarbonic acid to cxeess cruinm'jl.s tbo fornration of fa-b."