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Show m No "Cyclones" on Land. " "'E3 Of Into years It has becomo common ' l-Sv to call every violent storm a "cy- "ap3S clone," which Is plainly erroneous. A '-9Mm cyclone, never occurs except on 'the 'Jfi65 ocean, asserts a weather observer, be- , .filjfll cause a cyclono Is a violent, whirling wK storm of great area, and no such storm t"-jBp? could occur on land. The so-called ,VK "cyclones" of the West are "torna- ilH does," which nro whirling storms ot , H great violence, but contracted In are. ,-iABI Tornadoes have been known whose V 'i&Sfl greatest width did notv exceed a' few 'Slfl rods, and thoso which; exceed several., v fH mites in width arovery unusual, ' tvifH i ' ' ' ''jB |