Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1881 — Cost of Living in Germany. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Living in Germany.

To those who think that living is cheap, I would refer them to the figures below as representing the actual cost, as near as it is possible to get them, of the necessities of life in this part of Germany—in the kingdoms of Bavaria and Wurtemburg, in the duchy of Baden, etc. In other parts of Germany the prices will not vary much from these figures, but would be higher rather than less, particularly in Northern Germany, Prussia, Saxony, etc. : Pork, 14 to 16 cents per pound; mutton, 15 to 18 cents ; beefsteaks and beef for roasting, 18 to 25 cents ; common beef, 10 to 16 cents; chickens, 50 to 75 cents each ; butter, 24 to 35 cents; cheese, 20 to 30 cents; sausage meat, of which great quantities are consumed, 18 to 27 cents; sugar, 10 to 12 cents; rice, 6 cents ; flour, 7 cents; beans, 4 and 5 cents a pound; milk, 4 and 5 cents a quart ; potatoes, 33 to 90 cents per cwt.; wood, $4.25 to $5 per cubic meter—wood and coal average by weight, 45 cents for 100 English pounds ; eggs, 15 to 18 and 20 cents a dozen, etc. —Recent Letter in Lowell Courier.