Dagon

a national god of the Philistines worshiped at Gaza and elsewhere. The word has by some been derived from dag an, meaning curn, but the general opinion is that it comes from dag, a fish, and that Dagon was the fish-god. Probably he had the head and hands of a man with the body and tail of a fish. The temple of Dagon at Ashdod continued beyond the period of the Old Testament, but it was destroyed by Judas Maccabeeus about Daguerre, Louis Jacqtres Mande, a French inventor; born in Cormeilles, France, in 1789. He was at first a scene painter at Paris, and by his original devices soon took a front place in the art. While engaged in this way and in painting panoramic views he discovered a method of representing moonlight, day, and night, changes of season, and so on, by the proper illumination of a large transmee canvas painted on both sides. he pictures were first exhibited in Paris in 1822, and shortly afterward in London. As early as 1814, Nicepbore Niepce had directed his attention to ) phone a reny, and in 1827 had delivered pictures on metal to the Royal Society. In 1826 he had been joined by Daguerre, and a formal agreement was made between them. Niepce died July 5, 1833, and had apparently given up the hope of_suc- ‘ceeding with a place sensitized by jodine.