So a friend of mine and I just finished watching the new Sherlock episode, and if you haven't seen this show yet you absolutely should. Go on and watch it, I'll wait.  
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Good, okay, now that we're all caught up, let's get down to the matter at hand. Because we're terrible nerds, we've naturally been reading the tie-in material for Sherlock, and John Watson happens to keep a blog. As has been mentioned in the most recent episode, the hit counter for that blog is stuck at 1895. Of course, our interest was immediately piqued. What could it mean?! It has to mean something! This sent us on an hours-long quest that lead us through a number of attempts to figure out what precisely that hit counter was trying to tell us. Now I open this up to you. Does 1895 mean something, or are we just desperate for something Sherlock-y to occupy our time between now and the next episode? The answer is almost certainly the second one. Here's what we've got: 
 
We tried it as a date, but there are seemingly no notable Holmes stories published/ set then, and no important events occurred in the UK in 1895 that are of special note; 1/8/95 was similarly fruitless. Next as a simple cipher (1=a etc.) from which the best we got was "AHIE" or "RIE," which appear to be meaningless only because they are. Then as a slightly more complex code (blog entry on 1=1st day, of 8=August, 9th line, 5th word) which came out as "details" or, using the 5 as a letter, "R," similarly meaningless unless you want to make the gigantic leap that "R" is the first letter in "Reichenbach Falls," which is the place where Sherlock Holmes met his temporary doom in The Final Problem (published 1893 and set in 1891, so no connection to the number). Then we started to get a bit sillier. In 1895 a book entitled The Woman Who Did was published. Irene Adler's nickname is The Woman. Coincidence? Almost certainly, yes. In 1895, famous playwright Oscar Wilde was arrested at the Cadogan Hotel. Also, the Sherlock Holmes story The Bruce-Partington Plans was set in 1895. The name of the murder victim? Arthur Cadogan West. What can it be other than some hidden message?! 
 
It's actually a lot of fun coming up with these crazy connections, so feel free to weigh in with your own ridiculously convoluted theories! As for my apparent descent into madness, I can only blame the show for hosting these sites wherein there actually is some audience participation (albeit extremely, almost insultingly, easy puzzles; see Sherlock's Science of Deduction website, specifically the Hidden Messages section), and my own suspicious and mistrustful nature.  
 
Edit: I have found a solution that might almost be called reasonable! A poem by a man named Vincent Starrett, entitled 221B, is about the timeless nature of the Holmes and Watson characters, and explicitly uses 1895 to describe the generic time period in which the stories are set. Mystery solved! ...Or is it?!