World Of Wonders.

It seems to be hit-or-miss now. We last saw it in 2008, and every year we expect it to have disappeared for good. I will miss the freak show, even though I never paid to go in.
                 
This pretty much sums it up:    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/13/us/13album.html

From the article, about Ward Hall:

He never married, never had children: “I’ve been blessed. I have not been burdened with that, dear sir." Instead he has spent his life on the road, most of it with his disheveled, mutton-chopped, chain-smoking business partner, Chris Christ, 58, and with Poobah, the 3-foot-7-and-a-quarter-inch dwarf who, after eating 100 skewers of fire a day, 12 hours a day, seven days a week for five decades, has no eyebrows or eyelashes to speak of, giving him the look of a pale jack-o’-lantern. Poobah has a knot on his forehead, wears a hearing aid the size of a bagel, has low blood pressure and speaks with a deep, incomprehensible gurgle. Clearly, fire has taken its toll. 


From 2005:

To give you a better feel for Poobah's stature:

That's Ward Hall in the white jacket:

From 2008, Poobah eats fire: