Tacts About Cotton.T1h» world's cot tun production for 1001 entering commercial channels was 18,011.S.’if) bales, with a total consumption of 7 l.!80 hales. This indicates n surplus in tho world’s factory supply of cotton amounting to hales. Thototal production and consumption of cotton, however, do not represent the full statistics for the world. Large lt;|iiahtiticM of cotton arc grown and consumed in China, Japan, Asiatic fJussia and other eastern countries and in South and Central America, which do not enter into commercial channels and cannot bo estimated with any certainty.— Harper’s Weekly.Octavo Tharut.Miss Alice French chose her pen