52 AACHEN. It will be seen that the prices of most articles steadily increased during these years. There are at Aachen several horseflesh butchers, who do a regular trade at prices varying from 3^6?. per lb. for soup meat to 5%d. for the best joints for roasting. Sausage costs 4\d. a lb., and “ meat pasties ” are sold in large numbers at a halfpenny each. The horse butchers complain, however, that their supplies are gradually decreasing, and one reason given for this is the substitution of electric for horse power in the tramway system. Predominant prices in Berlin being taken as 100, the index numbers for Aachen are as follows :—Food, other than meat, 105 ; meat, 111 ; all food, 106 ; coal, 81 ; and food and coal, 103. The index number for rent and prices combined is 93, Berlin being 100.