OH MY GOD I KNOW WHY THE SEEMINGLY RANDOM NUMBER IN A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA IS 1895! SIR A C DOYLE WAS BORN IN 1859 AND IF YOU SWITCH THE NUMBERS AROUND, YOU GET 1895
Actually it’s reportedly something about how Sherlock Holmes took off in 1895, or that was his best year, or that was the year the book ACD considers his best was published.
I thought it was from this poem:
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Here dwell together still two men of note
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very near they seem, yet how remote
That age before the world went all awry.
But still the game’s afoot for those with ears
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:
England is England yet, for all our fears–
Only those things the heart believes are true.
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five.
by Vincent Starrett (1886-1974)
The Light in the Sky 